Awards Family Links Search the Web. Each night of the week, each of our children has the opportunity to cook with Mom. This has a number of advantages. You eat out less because no one is prepared to give up their night.
Children are creative and like to change recipes, allowing for fun variation.
This another opportunity for precious one on one, always sought for in a large family. Cooking with children doesn't have to be stressful and little fore-planning helps to eliminate a lot of that. My biggest worry is always that someone will be hurt, with a knife, hot pan, splattering etc. So I make sure that if we're going to be browning onions, that they wear a long sleeved shirt, this also protects little wrists from contact with the rim of the pan. If your child is going to be standing on something, then make sure it is sturdy and that there is not an audience of chairs.