Harrison Fugman

So real cooking does fine motor skills, right?

So you're stirring, you're actually pouring, you're following directions, right?

And then you have sensory learning.

So you get the textures, the smells, the heat awareness, like she knows Caliente, right?

Um, and then confidence and responsibility because she does get to make it and then she does get to eat what she made, but pretend cooking really good for imagination and creativity language development.

So her telling us like I'm making soup and making muffins.

Social skills because she can serve others.

She can role play.

And then independence and storytelling inside their heads, which I do see both of.

So I think it's beneficial.

She does not get imagination from real cooking.

But she doesn't know what you're making.

You're telling her we're making egg bites today.

Whereas in her kitchen, she can be like, I'm going to put the banana in the soup, which makes no sense.

Chickpea cheese.

But I think it's very beneficial to have both because here's the thing.

You pick that you guys are going to make the chickpea cheese protein balls.

When she goes to her kitchen, though, she gets to say, I'm going to pick all these ingredients.

But she's not tall enough to go to the refrigerator.

She's one and a half years old.