The kitchen is a very important parent-child space. Working together in the kitchen not only fosters emotional connections between families, but also teaches your child how to prepare food, allows him to learn more new vocabulary, practices eye-hand coordination, as well as builds their self-confidence and independence.
However, home designs are generally designed to serve the height and habits of adults. So, it does take a lot of preparation to invite your child to join you in the kitchen. As parents, all we can do for our children is to prepare the environment and assist them.
1 Height issues
When prepping the environment, we must anticipate the obstacles that the child may encounter in this environment. If you want to make the kitchen environment suitable for your child, the first factor to consider is the height issue. However, children are constantly growing taller. As a family, we can't build a kitchen that is appropriate for a child's height when he is two years old, then wait until he reaches six years old, then trash the kitchen that was there when he was two and build a kitchen that is appropriate for his height at six.
So what to do?
Here, to introduce this very commonly used children's kitchen ladder, it is called helper tower or kitchen toddlers tower. it is particularly high safety factor, front and back left and right four directions to protect the child will not fall down. And you can observe the bottom of this ladder panel type, is adjustable with the child's height change to adjust the height. Very flexible and useful.
2. Explain the rules to ensure the safety of children
Before you decide to let your child learn how to cook, first of all, you should make a "rule" with your child. For example, "wash your hands before cooking", "do not run around in the kitchen" and so on. Parents should always be behind the child hand to hand teaching, and then let go when the child is skilled.
Water, fire, and electricity have many potential dangers, especially for children, but they are also resources that we use every day of our lives. We need to let our children know about their dangers while also letting them know about their benefits. Too much fear should not be instilled in children. Many times, if you are more observant, you will find that children are actually very careful.
What we need to do is to prepare the environment in advance, always observe, assist, and prepare for emergencies beforehand. Instead of being lazy to prepare, observe, assist, and think of contingency measures in advance, just input fear. This "dangerous", that "dangerous", this "do not touch", that "do not touch".
We can also read through parent-child. Time to read books about water/fire/electricity, so that children can connect the knowledge in books with reality.
3. Activity planning and preparation tools
1) Fruit Cutting
- Cut apples
Prepare tools: small apron, and apple cutter, food clip, plate
When we prepare the environment for our children, it is important to have a sense of order. Because a sense of order. In the external environment can help children build a sense of order in their inner world. In every subtlety of life, we can provide a sense of order to our children.
When you are ready, mom and dad show how to do it, and the baby can start trying it out on his or her own. Only when it is necessary do we help
him. When you are done, mom and dad should
Demonstrate how to clean up. Let your baby learn not only to cut things, but also to clean up.
In the same way, we can also
- Cut Cucumber
- Cut carrots
2) Peeling
The action of "peeling" is also often used in kitchen activities. And peeling-related activities are easy to clean and easy to control without the need for special tools. I highly recommend that parents let their younger children join the daily kitchen peeling activities
- Peeling bananas
- Peeling eggs
3） Washing Fruit
Turn down the faucet first when washing fruits. You can give your child a dishwashing basin, soak things in the basin and let your child learn
rub things by hand. You can also give your child a filter, take the fruit under the faucet to flush the water. You can also give your child a small brush
A small brush to brush the mud from potatoes or sweet potatoes.
