Parenting with Presence

Cooking with children can be more than just preparing food — it can also be a playful and learning-filled adventure. You can weave small games right into the process: turn a step into a rhyme, slip in a riddle, or even make a silly mistake on purpose. For example, while baking an apple pie, you […]

When we think of cooking with children, we usually picture ingredients, recipes, and final results. But just as important as what we cook is how we begin. Over the years of working with children, I’ve learned that having a small ritual at the start of an activity can make all the difference. It helps children switch from running and playing into

There is one skill that can completely change how much joy both children and adults experience during an activity. It’s the ability to see what’s important — and let go of the rest. Think about it: in life, too, when we try to cover everything at once, we quickly lose the sense of happiness and end up exhausted. The same

When I first started cooking with children, I didn’t have a ready-made method. I searched for recipes by intuition, tried, observed. In the beginning, I was often driven by ambition: I wanted to show parents what we could achieve together with their children — sometimes even choosing complicated recipes. But in the end, I wore

I remember about ten years ago, during the Christmas season, when we built a whole “cookie city” together. The format was simple: there were creative workshops for adults, and one of them was my own gingerbread workshop for children. What amazed me most was the children’s ability to stay focused for such a long time.