Luluka B-S

Teaching Teens To Cook

By: Luluka B-S.

It’s been said that your food is your medicine. If your food is bad, your health will deteriorate. If your food is good, your health will prosper. So, help your child learn to cook, and you can insure a happy, healthy future for them. When children learn to cook, they learn how to prepare healthy food that will put them not only in a good mood, but it will give them good internal systems too. Children can also prepare awesome sweet-tooth treats, but without all that unhealthy high fructose corn syrup. You can definitely see that cooking is good for your child, no matter what his or her age.

Learning how to cook helps you be well nourished, and it is a powerful skill that people of all ages should master (Stollman). When you cook, you control what is going into your food, and you buy the ingredients, so you know what is going into your food. How about ordering a gross take-out from McDonald’s? Or, does having your child (and you, of course) make an amazing homemade BBC dinner at home, with family and friends, sound better?

Once quoted from Matt Cartwright: “Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.” As you can see, when your child has an unhealthy diet, all of these illnesses are possible. Another quote from Matt Cartwright: “Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy decisions can improve habits now and instill healthy eating habits for a lifetime.” Have your children start a healthy lifetime now by teaching them to cook and helping them to practice cooking at home.

Additionally, cooking allows kids to learn and practice math. It’s nearly impossible to cook without doing some math (Myers). If I am allowed to cook, I can improve on my math skills, and broaden my horizons because of the newly earned information. Don’t you think that children should be able to have basic cooking skills, the knowledge of proper cooking tools, and the ability to follow a recipe correctly? I do.

Some people might say that children shouldn’t be able to cook: they could get hurt while preparing, baking, or cooking food. However, when children learn how to cook, they learn important life skills, all the while having fun. Also, since cooking is a skill that stays with you forever, you wouldn’t have to get a bento box or the likes when you are in college. Instead, you can teach your child to cook healthy meals, and have a better time with them altogether.

Now you know that once children know that their food is their medicine, they should know how to prepare good foods and how to make them taste like a professional cook’s food. Now you can see that your children should be cooking instead of mucking around. And what do you know? You can learn some new things too!