Raising Boys, Third Edition: Why Boys Are Different--and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men by Steve Biddulph

Author:Steve Biddulph [Biddulph, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781607746034
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2014-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

PRACTICAL HELP

Boys in the Kitchen

It’s easy to start kids off with a lifetime interest in food preparation, because nature is on your side. Kids love to eat. They love the smells, colors, tastes, and even the mess of food!

Babies can sit on the floor in the kitchen rolling oranges around or piling pea pods in and out of a plastic bowl. Toddlers can help you make play dough (not to eat!), stirring and kneading the mixture, adding bright coloring. Then they can have hours of fun playing with the results.

For four- or five-year-olds, Christmas and party treats are the most motivating cooking (because you get to eat them!). Making cookies and icing a cake are both good kids’ activities. Never let them near a stove or hot things on their own, though.

Little boys can stir, pour, measure, or weigh, shuck sweet corn, shell peas, and wash carrots and potatoes in a plastic washbowl. (Growing vegetables in the garden is another great possibility. Radishes grow the fastest. Snow peas, cherry tomatoes, and strawberries are good because you can pick more every day.) Boys love to make faces on bread with strips of carrot and celery, sliced tomato, and cheese shapes. They also love freezing juice to make their own ice pops. When a little older, they can safely use a peeler on veggies to help out at mealtime.

Kids need to be around ten years old before they can use sharp knives, hot liquids, or stoves. You should teach them, watch how they do, then check that they are still being careful. It’s best to have just one child at a time in the kitchen when cooking with hot things.

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