6 Ways to Make It Easier to Cook with Your Kids — Make Over Your Family Kitchen

My kids love to help me cook. They're 3 and 5, so they're medium-helpful, but they love to be involved, and I love to teach them about food and cooking (and math and science, too, as it's all part of the same thing) while we work together.

Those are the good moments. In between, it's a total mess — they'e not listening to directions, and they're fighting over who gets to do what and eating all the food before you have a chance to even cook it. Is it just us?

But based on our many cooking experiences (and discussing it with my parent friends), there are things you can do to make cooking a pleasant and frequent part of your routine. Here's what we could all do to make it easier to cook with kids.

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