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By: A Recipe for Fun: Cooking With Your Preschool Child | Earnest Parenting

A Recipe for Fun: Cooking With Your Preschool Child | Earnest Parenting — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:27:20 +0000

[...] and give them a way to feel like they’re helping too.2. Set some ground rules. Children need supervision when they’re in the kitchen, so establish a list of basic safety rules and make sure children are always within sight. To avoid [...]

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:19:18 +0000

LOL Pinoy. I think I learned as much of a lesson as TechnoBoy! And no he doesn’t read the blog unless I ask him to look at a particular post. I fully expect that to change in the future, and the boys may even ask me not to write about certain items. We’ll deal with that at the time. For now, if they do something funny they just smile when I say “you know I’m blogging that”.

By: Pinoy

Pinoy — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:42:28 +0000

It sounds like the perfect way to teach a lesson, he’ll never make that mistake again. But he shouldnt feel bad its amazing how easy it is to mess up microwave popcorn. Although the degree to which Techno boy messed it up is impressive.!!
ps. I hope he doesnt read your blog, it might make it a little hard to forget.

By: Kids in the Kitchen: TechnoBoy Cooks Again - Earnest Parenting

Kids in the Kitchen: TechnoBoy Cooks Again - Earnest Parenting — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:52:11 +0000

[...] realize how nervous he was about the whole cooking thing (poor thing had flashbacks to the popcorn incident) until I discovered him using a ruler to make sure he’d filled the pan half full of [...]

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:00:45 +0000

Love your posts Amy… and enjoy your commitment to homeschooling. We all know what an ominous task it is and it’s always a joy to see someone put their ALL into it…even if it means smoke in the house! We’ve had our fair share of near disasters as well. Thanks for the encouragement. Passing this link along to my homeschool friends.