Cooking With Kids: Building Life Skills Through Kitchen Fun | Age-by-Age Guide

"Get out of the kitchen - I'm cooking."

"It's dangerous."

"You're slowing me down."

"You're in the way."

Can you hold your hands up to saying or thinking these things?

It always surprises me how many adults tell their kids this stuff. And sure, I've been guilty of this at one time or another too.

I know, you are busy mama, you want to get things done.

If we keep our kids out of the kitchen, it's hardly suprising when, as teens, the kids "can't cook," and when they get to university and start living alone, they only eat takeaway and microwave meals and spend their life sick.

Kids shunned from the "dangerous" kitchen will be the next generation of can't cook, won't cook when they're older.

Without parental guidance, takeaway and the microwave meals become the least dangerous and indeed, the only ways they know how to eat.

By excluding them from the kitchen, this is what we teach them - even though that may never have been your conscious intention.

As parents, it's our duty to put capable adults into the world.

Adults who can cook healthy meals and nourish themselves with fresh ingredients without relying on processed foods or microwaves.

Adults who will be healthy, strong and capable.

And health starts with our diet. What we put in our bodies matters.

Today, I want to show you how we can pass on these vital kitchen skills to kids as young as 2 - and make it EASY and FUN.