When I started cooking in my daughter's kindergarten class a few years ago, I must admit I was pleasantly surprised to find just as many little boys as girls that were eager to start our next cooking project. Cooking together is becoming a lost tradition. People my age have wonderful memories of cooking with their grandmothers or parents. It is becoming more and more difficult for this tradition to continue today, with the busy lives parents and kids lead.
Cooking is just one great way of spending time working on something together.
It helps slow us down from our distracting, hyper- stimulating daily life, so that we can just enjoy being together. I find that when people cook together, all sorts of wonderful things happen. You take time to talk, laugh, and even eat together. Like I said, all sorts of wonderful things can happen. I feel passionately that everyone benefits when parents spend more time cooking with their young children.