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A piece out of Australia last week about kids in the kitchen revealed a few interesting statistics.
Here's a snippet from the article:
New research reveals almost half of Aussie kids are not learning how to prepare a healthy meal but a survey of 821 parents found 44 per cent said they did not have enough time to let their children help out in the kitchen at home.
More than two-thirds of primary age children do not know how to boil an egg while just over half of them can make a cheese toastie, the study found.
The study found 27 per cent of primary-school-aged kids never help with the cooking at home and 43 per cent of parents say their kids know less about cooking than they did at the same age.
If you have kids that are old enough, do they help you in the kitchen? Do you take the time to teach them how to do things around the kitchen?
Do you think there's enough emphasis on cooking in school? I know when I was at high school we did have a brief home economics class where we learned some recipes, but I predominantly learned how to cook from observing family members cook.
Here's a snippet from the article:
New research reveals almost half of Aussie kids are not learning how to prepare a healthy meal but a survey of 821 parents found 44 per cent said they did not have enough time to let their children help out in the kitchen at home.
More than two-thirds of primary age children do not know how to boil an egg while just over half of them can make a cheese toastie, the study found.
The study found 27 per cent of primary-school-aged kids never help with the cooking at home and 43 per cent of parents say their kids know less about cooking than they did at the same age.
If you have kids that are old enough, do they help you in the kitchen? Do you take the time to teach them how to do things around the kitchen?
Do you think there's enough emphasis on cooking in school? I know when I was at high school we did have a brief home economics class where we learned some recipes, but I predominantly learned how to cook from observing family members cook.