I'm working from home all this week, which has been *so* nice. No commute, and I'm able to get things done around the house during the day. One of those things is meal prep.
Yesterday, I decided to make pizza dough so that we could have pizza for dinner. As I was getting the pizzas ready, E wanted to help. So she dragged a kitchen chair over, climbed on it, and helped me spread the sauce and sprinkle the cheese. Of course, A wanted to get in on the action...so she hopped up on the chair with E. For a while, things were going well. We finished with our first pizza, and I went to go put it in the oven.
You can see where this is going, right?
While my back was turned for 15 seconds, some sort of scuffle had ensued. I turned around just in time to see both girls falling off the chair. While neither of them was seriously hurt, tears ensued. I almost cried right along with them, to be honest. They finally both stopped crying when I broke out ice cubes for them to put on their boo boos (in the case of E) or to try to eat (in the case of A).
Then, to add injury to injury, when I went to take the first pizza out of the oven, my finger slipped off the pot holder. Instinctively I went to steady the pan with my other, pot-holder free hand. So I managed to burn the bejeebus out of fingers on *both* my hands.
Ugh. Next time I'm ordering Papa Johns.
So, all you mamas whose kiddos "help" in the kitchen...how do you get them to counter height? Chairs, stools, levitation? Or do you do things on the kitchen table or a kids table?
3 years ago
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OH no! so sorry-I use a step stool for Harrison and he stands on it as he leans on the counter...I don't know what I'll do when all 3 boys want to help. If they are anything like Harrison they will be budding-Emeril's too!
they use their chairs (little) from their little table. it is starting to really scare me b/c i leave too much on the counters, we have a small kitchen with little space.
Ugh, I have been there.
Well, we use a COSCO two step stool that can easily fold up and go in our pantry. It has a handle bar so R has been pretty steady on it. G now wants to get in the action though, so I think we may have to get another one.
But *big* kudos for getting them involved with the cooking. Just imagine the day when you come home from work and one of them has taken care of dinner for you. That should purge any lingering guilt.
Ugh- what a nightmare- I can see this happening at my house. My kids hear the words 'cook, kitchen, bake, make, or food' and they run to the table and push their chairs over to the counter. We used to use stools, but they slipped. We have the backs of the chairs against the counter, and have not had problems since them, except for when one of them pushes over a chair with a booster on it, or they both desire the same chair.
We saw the special kitchen helper stool thing that is like $179 or something like that, but it is HUGE and we have nowhere right in the kitchen to store it.
I found levitation didn't work well... Hadden could levitate right over a hot stove, you know.
Seriously though, we ended up getting The Learning Tower (http://www.mylearningtower.com/). Yes, the gargantuan step stool that takes up tons of space in our kitchen, but has also saved Hadden from countless concussions (or so I can assume). I just push it up against the island and they both cook away.
We do the arm chairs that go with our kitchen set pushed up against the island. I tell myself that the arms help hold them in. definitely need one for each though. They still fight over who is "closer" and who "can't reach".
Definitely Jedi Mind Trick.
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