Preschool Education & Everything Preschool

Cooking with kids can be one of the most terrific activities that can happen in a home. Sure, there’s going to be mess and there’s always a little bit of risk when putting kids in the kitchen, but cooking with kids teaches a variety of lessons that will apply to all areas of life and education. Plus, cooking with kids helps to establish a bond between you that will last a lifetime.

Here are just some of the things that kids can learn when you cook with them:

At its basic level, science is the study of the world. What could be more important during the preschool years? And yet, what comes more naturally to preschoolers who are already so inquisitive about the world around them? Make the most of your child’s preschool years by engaging that inquisitiveness and applying it to the study of science. By doing this, you encourage a life long interest in the world around your child which will contribute to all levels of learning. And, if your child is interested in science, your child will be more interested in life in general!

Here are just a few ideas for including science in your preschooler’s daily life:

You feel like your worst nightmare has come to pass. Another child in your preschooler’s life has started to bully him or her and you’re not sure what to do about it. On the one hand, you want to teach your child to stick up for himself and to handle things alone. On the other, you want to intervene and stop the bullying before it gets out of hand. You have no idea what to do. And the worst part is that the situation brings out all of your feelings of helplessness as you begin to realize that you are not going to be able to protect your child from the world.

As a responsible parent, you probably want to make sure that you teach your child to be able to recite your home phone number as early as you possibly can. While we would all like to hope that our children will never have any occasion to need to use their home phone number, we also want to err on the side of caution in making sure that our children are kept safe. (more...)