Education in the Kitchen What Your Child Can Learn From
Baking
CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING Cuisine is a fundamental part of every culture. Introducing your child to dishes from around the world will expand their horizons. Want your child to be a less picky eater? Involving them in the cooking process is the surest way to get them excited about trying new flavors and ingredients. cookies will encourage greater nutritional awareness, but hear us out. Sugar is often buried within packaged foods. When you bake something at home, a child gets to see, firsthand, just how much sugar goes into certain sweets. Meanwhile, cooking savory dishes also allows them to learn what constitutes a balanced, healthy diet. NUTRITION Now, you might not think that baking
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, you’re probably wracking your brain for the perfect recipe to bake for your loved one. There’s nothing wrong with store-bought chocolate, but there’s no topping the personal touch of some homemade baked goods. If you have kids, baking alongside them can be just as rewarding as enjoying the fruits of your labor. As an added bonus, baking is a hands-on opportunity where your child can learn all sorts of important concepts. Here is a short list of some of the educational lessons hiding in your kitchen. MATH Baking is a numbers game. Just take a look at any recipe, and you’ll recognize the importance of math in building a beautiful cake. Having children measure
out ingredients helps them learn about fractions and ratios. You can also test your kids by doubling or halving a recipe for multiplication and division practice. With older kids, practice unit conversions by asking, for example, how many pints are in half a gallon. FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS Not unlike computer science, baking requires a strict order of operations. The wet and dry ingredients often need to be mixed separately and then folded together. It only takes one deviation from the instructions for a pastry to go from delicious to disgusting. Spending time in the kitchen, then, is a great way for kids to learn the importance of reading directions carefully and comprehending what they’ve just read.
COATS + CAR SEATS = DANGER! All of us want to protect our kids. As a mother, I only want the best for my son, and I’d do anything to keep him safe. But what happens when we try to keep our kids safe and end up putting them at risk, instead? Unfortunately, it’s very possible to do. One too-common situation like this involves winter coats in child car seats. The solution is a simple one. You take the child’s coat off, put the child into the seat, tighten the harness, and then lay the coat over them. This way, the coat lies on top of the harness and doesn’t put the child in danger. Easy, right?
I’d love to share that knowledge with you, and I’d love to know that it’s making the world a little safer.
We all want to do well for our children. That includes keeping them warm during the cold months and keeping them safe in a car. But unfortunately, it’s not always that simple. And if you didn’t know there was a danger, you wouldn’t know to take the coat off before putting the child in the seat. If you have any questions about car seats or other safety issues, please get ahold of me. One benefit of being a personal injury attorney is that I know a lot about this stuff.
Not many people know about this danger, but as an attorney working in the personal injury field, I stay up-to-date on these sorts of things. In this case, the problem is simple. Car seats have safety harnesses, but they only work if they’re fitted snugly. When you put one over a child wearing a puffy winter coat, it leaves wiggle room. And if your child can wiggle, they can be injured or killed if a collision or accident occurs.
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