Cooking with Kids

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Proper dinner attire is obviously not required, but we really like this post from Bloesem Kids on making meal times celebratory for your kids.

Jenny writes, "After we have painstakingly made sure that our children are not allergic to things by introducing them one at a time, children should then be able to graduate to beautiful dinners."

We really like the idea of teaching children to savor meal time and special meals as an event. In the photo above, the kids were pretending to be a restaurant, while their mother was the "waitress".

Find the complete post along with recipes here.

Comments (6)

Love this idea!

posted by LaneC on March 10th 2009 at 3:18pm
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Beautiful idea, but I giggled when I saw it--my daughter would chuck that beautifully arranged plate, the orange juice glasses, and the candle across the room, then smear the salmon in her hair. I guess that's a kind of celebration. (Granted, she's only 12 months.)

posted by babard on March 10th 2009 at 3:38pm
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Pretend Restaurant is probably a great way to reinforce good behavior at real restaurants too. And ordering from a waitress-mom is great practice for a kid too shy to order from a real one.

posted by Kaete on March 11th 2009 at 8:49am
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Not a fan of the lit candle at the table but everything else is great!

posted by Amy BK on March 11th 2009 at 10:44am
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This is totally Montessori -- this is how our children are taught to eat at Montessori. The table is properly set with glasses, china plates, cloth napkins, flowers, votive candles (I kid you not), pitchers of water...

posted by mschatelaine on March 11th 2009 at 1:29pm
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Those kids are too cute! They look just like my brother an I used to. We enjoyed a few meals in the buff from time to time, too :)

posted by EricaHT on March 11th 2009 at 2:53pm
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