We're Cookin'!
by Leslie Kimmelman
Shortly after my daughter Natalie turned 18 months, she strung together her first real sentence: "Cream cheese tastes good." That this was her first real sentence was hardly a surprise as I come from a family of cooks. I spend more time in the kitchen than just about any other room in the house--eating, preparing meals, washing dishes. So naturally my daughter spends a lot of time in the kitchen, too. This is a good thing as the kitchen makes for great learning environment, and not just learning...
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by Vivien Mazlen Levy
The other day after dinner, I answered the door for a UPS delivery. The driver handed me a package and then he hesitated. "Uhmm, there's something in your hair." "Something?" I squeaked. I grabbed a mirrored compact from my bag and sure enough, there was a clump of mashed carrots stretching from the front of my hairline down to my right ear. "Perfect!" I thought. "I'm wearing leftovers."
Since my 18-month-old daughter Charlotte discovered the thrill of feeding herself, dinnertime ...
