"Cooking" your child's future

"Cooking" your child's future

Kids love to cook. "Chicken sabzi" with muck and flowers and "maggi noodles" with curly creepers along with soil for spices, they love rattling those toy vessels outdoors. Then why not bring them to the real kitchen where anything you do, will teach them something priceless for life? Get to know why it is important for your child to spend time with you in the kitchen.

A class conducted at a youth recreation cente in Shenyang, China, taught kids how to make cake.

The highlight of a kid's diet today is fast food and soft drinks. Along with this being an unhealthy trend, you cannot avoid it either when brands bring the junk to your door-step. By letting your child watch you in the kitchen, you are instilling an idea of homeliness and good health that will help his/her sound upbringing.

Kids being taught how to spread cream over the cake.

Cooking gives them a sense of contribution towards the family along with a feeling of accomplishment of a task or doing something very important, which kids long for. It also boosts their confidence.

A girl gives final touches to her cake in class.

The kids remember these times forever. They'll have stories to tell in school, later in college and will eventually pass this sense of bonding to their families.

An instructor helps the children decorate their cakes.

Patience on your part plays a very important role. If they are taught things in a way that they'll understand, they develop a sense of pride towards who is helping them. The respect towards the person goes up and affection sets in, to stay for life.

Parents cheer as their kids are at their best.

Kids love to eat what they make. So if you manage to help them make something healthy while having some fun, they are sure to understand the importance of health better.

A boy tries to draw a face on his freshly made cake.

It is unbelievable how much kids learn about math, chemistry, geography and creativity through cooking. A simple thing like adding mustard seeds to hot oil, and much more, registers a reaction in their heads that could make chemistry as a subject interesting to understand!

Children smear cream on their cakes at the class.

An increasing number of youngsters, today, leave home for educational purposes, or otherwise, to settle far away from home. Not knowing how to cook, even if it is the basics, can leave him/her stranded hungry due to an unforeseen shutdown of stores. The act of self-sustainance is a wise idea you can equip your child with from the beginning.

A boy decorates his cake with pink ears.

Colourful things is all they like. Small cooking exercises with the family or friends can give them some of their most memorable days of childhood. It is one of the best ways to help them express and enjoy their creations.

Source: India Syndicate