{"id":1095,"date":"2009-11-09T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2009-11-09T23:23:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T04:23:11","slug":"baking-with-your-child-october-29-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/baking-with-your-child-october-29-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Baking with your child, November 9 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spencer and Jake stirring the bread mix.<\/p><\/div>\n

First he poured the flour into the bowl.\u00a0He sprinkled a dash of salt and scooped a teaspoon or two of baking powder.\u00a0“My turn to stir, my turn PLLEAASSEEE!”\u00a0 Jake began to stir it all together flour flipping out of the bowl as Spencer supervised that his little brother was stirring properly.\u00a0 Taking turns they both blended the ingredients into one mixture no longer separated.\u00a0 After the milk, eggs, vanilla and butter were added they slopped it all into a greased bread pan which I then slid into the hot oven.\u00a0 The waiting began.\u00a0 The smell of sweet bread filled the kitchen, cinnamon floating in the air.\u00a0 Anticipation rose from the other two siblings that ran down the steps clop clop, bam, bam with heavy quick feet.\u00a0 Questions echoing in the kitchen “What did you make?\u00a0 Is it cinnamon bread, Mama’s bread, apple pie?\u00a0 Tell us, can we look in the oven?”\u00a0 Such is a day when I bake bread in our home.<\/p>\n

Do your kids love to bake with you?\u00a0 Do you just do baking at Christmas time for the Christmas cookies?\u00a0 Do you let the kids just watch or do you let them add the ingredients, pour the milk and mix it all together?\u00a0<\/p>\n

My kids love to help bake.\u00a0 They actually enjoy helping more than they enjoy eating it.\u00a0 I think it is because it is fun spending time with mom in the kitchen and they have their hands in something they get to create.\u00a0 They get to watch it rise and then share in the reward of eating something they helped to make.\u00a0 It is a great learning process for children to start with an ingredient and witness the work of their hands creating an actual tangible creation.\u00a0It makes them feel proud, capable and confident that they are able to create.\u00a0 They also feel trusted by an adult to have the privilege to do it.<\/p>\n

The next time you have cookies or brownies to bake for a birthday at school or for\u00a0a party consider letting your child help you.\u00a0 Yes, it can be messy but relax and know you can clean up anything. You only have a short time to spend time with your child and it is a small window in which you can teach your child confidence, don’t miss that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Take the time to bake with your child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First he poured the flour into the bowl.\u00a0He sprinkled a dash of salt and scooped a teaspoon or two of baking powder.\u00a0“My turn to stir, my turn PLLEAASSEEE!”\u00a0 Jake began to stir it all together flour flipping out of the bowl as Spencer supervised that his little brother was stirring properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[320,24,322,321,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}