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Hello friends and welcome to the mini-edit from Edit Your Life. In these snack-sized mini episodes,

I answer your questions about everything from self-care to parenting to relationships to home

and more. Think of me like that friend you text your call when you need a quick piece of

compassionate and candid advice. Send me your questions. Today I'm excited to talk about one of my very favorite

topics and something I get questions about all the time, how to get kids functional in the kitchen.

This topic was on my mind again because I published a substack post in mid-August about putting

the fun in functional, in which I share

about not being a fun mom. Instead, I view myself as fun facilitating or fun adjacent, and that one of my

superpowers is putting the fun and functional. So here's an excerpt. One of those forms of fun happens in the kitchen, which is my

functional playground. I like to cook and I love to bake. So having an activity with my kids

that is fun, creativity, and functional life skills development, food on the table, relationship

building is a mega win. As soon as my kids began to develop verbal skills,

instead of playing on the floor with toys, we played in the kitchen. When they were toddlers,

I measured out dry ingredients and they delighted in dumping things into a bowl. As their motor

control improved, they handled wet ingredients in glass measuring cups, stirred dry and wet ingredients

together and shaped cookie balls.

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