It's wild, we've only really cooked a few meals start to finish (I don't have patience when I'm cooking) but he's come so far with just being chill instead of trying to do crazy tv/youtube chef things he's seen. I'm working on being better with letting him help and it taking way longer so he has those skills.
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My daughter wanted to cook an entire meal for us. She did green beans, cast iron pan chicken thighs & rice. I only lifted the pan around.
Safe knife skills are very important
Nice!! If I remember correctly, she's a little behind mine (he's 10). He's just now calm enough for me to trust him ๐. He's done instant noodles for a while but chopping has taken me some time.
My mum bought our kids two knives last year. For cooking, legit little kitchen knives for little hands. I hid it, because my 4yo wanted to pretend cooking, not slaughter our neighbors, but we'll try to introduce our 6yo soon.
Two professional knives for 4th birthday.
๐ that's great! I know there are great options for kids that won't damage people irreparably, we never got those...he's had a little pocket knife since he was 2, he cut every box we ever got and his fingers a couple of times. (Opinel is the brand and it has a rounded tip)

Those do look great for kids. I'll have to try and remember for my future grandkids ๐
I'll look up the rounded pocket knives, their previous punk preschool allowed responsible kids to weak them.
That's freaking awesome! Ours would've gotten kicked out of school. His was nice because of the round tipped, dull, and had a twist lock thing so the blade was hard to close accidentally.
Interesting! The ones I saw didn't have the lock.
This is the exact one his dad bought him...at 2 years old...