[blparent] teaching methods

[Veronica Smith]

Yes, what is it?

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] teaching methods

Thanks for your help.  I think I've really got a handle on what my daughter
can do and what she isn't ready for yet.

What is scratch bread?

Jo Elizabeth

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From: Brandy W
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] teaching methods

There are several children's cook books out there, and several on bard. At
her age I'd go with helping chose the measuring cup, filling the cup, poring
and stirring. She can even learn what to press on the microwave, or how to
spread on toast. I'd start with toast because it doesn't rip. She can also
help form dough into balls for cookies and that kind of thing. I don't let
kids get beyond that until they can read and comprehend pictures. Scratch
bread is also fun and good for them.





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-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] teaching methods

My daughter sometimes likes to do simple things with me in the kitchen like
adding ingredients to a recipe or stirring her own chocolate milk.  She's
not advanced enough to flip a fried egg because at four, I don't let her
near the stove.  I've never been very good at doing eggs myself, except
scrambled or boiled, so fried eggs are usually reserved for when Dad cooks
or we go out to eat.  I tried to teach her to crack an egg into a bowl, but
I guess she wasn't quite ready for that.  At first she wasn't tapping the
egg on the edge of the counter hard enough to break it, and when I told her
to do it a little harder, man did she bang it!  I got egged in a very big
way.  Egg all down the front of my shirt, in my hair, dripping off my nose
even.  You wouldn't think there was that much goo in such a small thing as
an egg, but that was a moment made for the video camera.

Jo Elizabeth

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's
brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and
died in cotton fields and sweatshops.--Stephen Jay Gould -----Original
Message-----
From: Veronica Smith
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 8:21 PM
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Subject: [blparent] teaching methods

Hello, I know that I am not the only mom or dad here that teaches our
children to cook.  I want to know some of your methods when teaching your
kiddos how to do this or that in your kitchens.  Gab had to learn to flip a
fried egg on her own, I cannot do it to save my life!


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