Simone Davies
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1,174 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2016
last heard Oct 2022
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There's also learning towers and things like that to get young kids who are involved in cooking so they can...
you think of age appropriate activities for them so a young child might just start tearing lettuce off or a kid who's never had any experience working in the kitchen give them something easy like that they're washing the salad and those kind of things and then they can build up to slicing with a not sharp knife and like something like a banana only needs a butter knife to cut it and then once they've mastered that then you could move on to cutting some cucumber and then moving up to cutting carrot and showing them how we use knives and all these kind of things so it's always with supervision
And then, yeah, they start to learn all of the skills in the kitchen themselves.
So there's definitely even as simple as having access to water during the day, a glass and a jug so that they can help themselves.
It's so easy, but we forget and we're always doing it for them and missing that opportunity for them to take on that responsibility and look after themselves.
Yeah.
Also movement is great.
If a child's dysregulated and they get involved with like scrubbing a table, it can actually help them calm down for kids who like need movement to do that.
So if you just invent a table scrubbing activity where there's a bar of soap and a brush and you wet the brush and you get them to clean the kitchen table, it can sometimes like, yeah, help them decompress if they're really out of control.
Yeah, it's definitely difficult for those kids to organize themselves.
And so again, we need to keep it as simple as possible, that their homework always gets unpacked and put in exactly the same place, that their work area is actually clutter-free without distractions lying around.
Because if they see the iPad sitting on their desk before you know it, they might be distracted to do something like that.
So really to remove everything else that they don't need and to have at the ready what they do need.
I like to also have like a little set of drawers where they can access a pencil or some paper, a stapler, scissors, depending, of course, on their age, so that if they need something, they don't have to walk to the other side of the house and wonder where it might be.
I remember just having a cup of tea at a friend's house and our kids were playing and they wanted to make some comic book and they kept running into the thing saying, Mom, where's sticky tape?
And then she'd have to ruffle through like hundreds of drawers to find some sticky tape.
And so if this isn't a completely, you know, there's no differently white kids here, but it's not teaching kids to take care of stuff themselves.
So just taking a little bit of time to set up the work area to be very inviting, distraction free, everything at the ready and with the things always in the same place that could really help a child learn that system and then be more productive every day.
do it the same every day.
Because again, the less work that brain has to do to how do we do this again?
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