Simone Davies

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 049a: Simone Davies on Setting Up Your Home to Support Your Child's Growth · 21 Oct 2022 podcast

And so when they're younger, you measure out all the ingredients and they take turns to add ingredients and then you can mix together.

And then they learn the kind of recipes that you cook and they can start to do multi-step

activities so this is a common theme in all of these household tasks they're brilliant for kids who are differently wired because they need to practice these skills and around the home there's so much opportunity for it so definitely preparing

breakfast can be really easy you could put a small container with some cereal in it and a scoop and then they can just scoop out one scoop of cereal and then have a small jug with milk in it so that they just have to manage a small amount of milk and then for younger kids we have cloths at the ready like a hand mitt because there's always going to be spills and then you don't have to like freak out every time something spills it's just like oh there's a cloth you can wipe it up

And it's no big deal.

So it's definitely about thinking ahead, like how can I give my child success to do these things?

And they get so pleased with themselves from like, oh, I made my own breakfast today.

I mean, Asher must have been really chuffed the first time he started that.

I'm all for it.

Yeah, it's really great for them to build their self-confidence.

Also, when kids can't quite reach the bench to make their breakfast and things like that, you can have a small step ladder.

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 kinds 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 kinds 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.

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