For children, cooking is comparable to magic. Indeed, you take different products, mix, cook, steam, and you get something completely new - a delicious and beautiful dish. To get rid of the child's help in the kitchen and be afraid to teach him to cook is not worth it. The fact that it is necessary to teach him how to clean up after himself is also good.Photos: firestock The benefits of learning to train your child

• Development of fine motor skills (cleaning vegetables, modeling vareniki, pelmeni, pies, etc.).

• Development of imagination (decoration of dishes, preparation of cookies of various forms, etc.).

• Training of performance and accuracy (compliance with the recipe).

• The development of independence (when the child grows up, he will be able to cook his own food himself).

• The consolidation of the family (the joint preparation of food is an important moment fastening the family).

• Vocabulary development (discussion of cooking process).
• Representations about the form, size and color, taste, smell (at all stages of cooking).
• Ability to save time and money (when a childwill be older, he will choose the ingredients that are optimal for the recipe and your wallet, begin to appreciate that parents spend money, time and energy to cook tasty and healthy food for the whole family.
• Desire and ability to care for (good motivation in the process of "cooking" - cooking for relatives and friends).

Photo: firestock Possible troubles and how to avoid them

• To the child does not cut himself, give him a special plastic (commercially available), disposable or table knife. We teach the child safety rules on the example of this knife.

• To prevent the child from becoming burned, explain to him thatplates, frying pans, pots are heated. Tell us why there are potholes, baking mittens and how dangerous it is to burn the pens. To learn this information, you can let feel the heat from the plate (at a distance) or let it touch (but not very hot!).

• To achieve that the child does not soryl, hardly it will turn out. This is a matter of experience. Remember yourself in his place.

• To the child really helped, but did not interfere,- a matter of time and perseverance. Exercise and in no case do not scold him for misses. Otherwise, cooking will cause the child only negative emotions, and he will lose any interest in it.

So, how to start teaching a child to cook?Buy or sew a baby apron, as well as a kerchief for the girl and a chef hat for the boy. Do not make cooking a purely mechanical process. With the child, it should be an exciting and informative occupation. Show the child how to wash vegetables and fruits. Tell me why this is done. Call the color and shape of products, guessing riddles about them.A photo: firestock Very fun for the child will be the process of modeling from the dough. Separate him a small piece of dough and let him make a bun or pie. Roll out and knead the dough is very useful for the development of fine motor skills. And this is simply necessary for those kids who have a delay in the development of speech.

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