When you grew up and moved out of your childhood home, did you know how to cook? Do you wish you would've had more help in that area so you didn't have to rely on fast food so often or junky snacks? I know you want that for your kids like I do, but making sure they're ready isn't always easy.
Most schools don't offer a home economics course anymore, so Moms (or Dads), YOU are their only hope.
This generation is predicted to be the first not to outlive their parents. Think about that! Knowing how to cook could change everything, because…
No kid should be trapped in a processed food world.
My local blogging friend, Katie, and her hubs, Kris, have been behind the scenes working to pull together this Kids Cook Real Food class, and I know you're going to love the quality of the videos as well as the useful content.
Save TIME in the Kitchen by Teaching Your Kids to Cook
If you need help in the kitchen, it's time to teach your kids to cook — they'll love it and you'll love the extra hours in the day. Two of our kids love being in the kitchen with me, and this has been a lifesaver on busy nights. Having more trained hands in the kitchen shaves off cooking time HUGE. Our daughter already says she wants to be a chef someday, so she'll love learning more. Our kids also know how to help clean up, imagine what you could do with all that extra free time when you can get your kids in the kitchen to truly HELP.
This class is just what we all need to take our kids to the next level, no matter where they are now — even if your kids don't like to cook at all, this will help them get going and excited about real food, because they'll be a big part of making it happen.
To start you off…
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By the way, part-way down the page, you'll find a link to a FREE knife skills class and you'll learn one thing YOU must do before giving your kids knives. 🙂
CLICK HERE to find out more about the Kids Cook Real Food class.
Kelly the Kitchen Kop says
Gabby Oney & LauranCurran but that’s just it, Katie shows in the videos how to give each kid a job that truly helps you & takes stuff off your plate, to actually save you time. We have 4 kids & they’ve been helping me in the kitchen for years, and mostly it came out of necessity because I could NOT do it all myself. This way they tend to eat their meals better when they help prepare it, too. 🙂
Gabby Oney says
Yeah if you had that kind of kitchen to work with and a way to keep toddlers out of trouble. I’d rather do the cooking until we can manage a SANE way to get my kids to start cooking. It doesn’t always work so awesomely as articles make it out to be. I’m 37 weeks pregnant with 4 other kids. My body is already feeling half broke. I’m not going to add to my body’s stress load with kids making a mess in the kitchen too.
Lauran Curran says
That’s kind of where I am (I just had #5). I occassionally let my older 2 (6 &8) peel and cut vegetables, but it’s usually not worth the fight of keeping the toddlers out of the way because they want to help, too. And time is very limited to prepare a meal between nursing the baby.
KitchenKop says
Oh goodness, thankfully you were on top of all of that!!! Very frustrating…
Kel
Lori says
Even if your child is getting some kind of home-ec make sure it is not just a cover for sex-ed with questionable morals. My now 32 year old son was forced to take a 9 week course of home-ec in 6th grade, then was signed up again (he did NOT want it!) in 7th grade, and when they tried to force him to take it again in 8th grade, I put a stop to the nonsense.
In both 6th and 7th grades he and his classmates (and all classes) were taught to cook nothing but highly processed foods. The teacher informed the kids that “no one makes food from scratch anymore”. My son knew this was completely bogus because we ate homemade foods! I am sure many of his friends did, too.
These kids were taught how to make Pillsbury biscuits from a can (I kid you not!), how to make Monkey Bread from canned biscuits, how to make Hamburger Helper and a few other foods I can no longer remember. In other words, they were taught how to read the labels on the package and follow them.
They also tried to send my son home to ‘watch” a sack of flour that could not be out of his site for 3 days as though it was a baby! He was not allowed to have anyone else “watch” his flour and he had to be completely ‘responsible” for his bag of flour. I went to the school and had a conference with the teacher and informed her my son would NOT be participating in such nonsense! She was not happy with my refusal to allow this nonsensical and ridiculous project to be imposed on my son, but I did tell her that she could give my son an alternative to help ‘teach’ him responsibility. She did nothing. I then had my son write a small essay on what he thought was responsibility and how he felt he was a responsible young adult (he was 13). Had we not done this, he’d have gotten a failing grade. I think she just thought we’d overlook this and she could give him a failing grade, but I was not about to let that happen.
He did not like writing this essay (one page), but I also did not want him to think I was just getting him out of doing a project, and I wanted him to take responsibility for himself. He told me the teacher accepted his essay begrudgingly, said a few snarky things, but he passed.
Anyway, it is important to know what our kids are being taught, by whom. and the value system being taught, whether for food, family life, or anything else.
Thanks for a great article, Kelly!