Cooking can significantly benefit children's development by fostering skills in nutrition, mathematics, and cultural awareness. It encourages them to appreciate food origins, understand nutrition needs, and avoid obesity in adulthood. Early cooking lessons also help improve their academic skills and moral understanding.

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What Cooking Brings to the
Young Mentality of Kids

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Cooking is just one of the many things kids can learn at an early age. Parents also
bring them to swimming, language and sporting lessons to broaden their still-limited
skill pool. It is also a way of satisfying their endless curiosity, by actually exposing
them with new things. But of the many skills they learn while young, the culinary ones
may benefit them greatly in the future.
There is more focus nowadays to teach good nutrition from a young age. This aim is
hardly unfounded, as a major university in America found that children who eat fast
food frequently get lower grades. Across the spectrum, from math, science to reading,
there was a significant decline at a young person’s intellectual development.
Therefore, cooking enables them to fend for themselves by using natural ingredients.
With that in the bag, there is a bigger chance for them to avoid obesity during
adulthood.
Obesity avoidance beside, what else do kids get from cooking?
Process Progression
When kids know where food comes from, they appreciate the process and know that
it does not prepare by itself. Furthermore, it helps further their young
understanding skills, not to mention how to deal with hard lessons.
Arithmetic Advancement
It is impossible to cook without measuring ingredients. Too much of it will
unnecessarily strengthen the flavour, while shortage of ingredients leads to lack of
flavour. To get it right, kids will have to count, measure and follow directions. This is
an important side product of cooking, as many kids struggle with mathematical
subjects later in their schooling lives.

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Nourishing Nutrition Needs
When taught at an early age that vegetables are part of food preparation, they are
more likely to eat them later in life. They also learn nutrition at an early age and what
their young bodies need. If they make the vegetables they should eat, they will not be
short of vitamins and minerals that will help them grow.
Cultivated Culture Consciousness
At some point during their cooking lessons, children will start to ask where this dish
and that food came from. In turn, they will learn that Indians like their food spicy,
Americans like it large and the French complex. Beside awareness of certain societies,
culture also cultivates morality.
It is always good to remember the sponge analogy about children’s brain. By pointing
that porous eagerness in the right direction, there is no reason to doubt that kids will
grow up civilised, skilful and capable.

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Sources:
http://www.chefworks.com.au/aprons/kids-aprons/
http://childdevelopmentinfo.com/child-activities/why-kids-should-learn-to-cook/
http://time.com/3645607/kids-who-eat-more-fast-food-get-worse-grades/
http://www.kindercare.com/blog/kids-in-the-kitchen-learning-through-cooking
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/parents/learning-maths-through-cooking
http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu/Pekarsky/Pekarsky.html
http://www.thekidscookmonday.org/why-cook-with-kids/