<\/p>\nThe children always want to help when I’m in the kitchen – and I love that they do.<\/p>\n
But I struggle finding things they can do to help. <\/p>\n
More often than not, they want to help when I’m standing over a hot stove, when I’m chopping with my chef’s knife, or when I’m trying to get something clean (I cringe when they stick their grubby little hands in my rinse water!) <\/p>\n
It just isn’t very easy to work in the kitchen with three preschoolers crowded around.<\/p>\n
But I had some inspiration while I was getting ready for dinner tonight. I was serving mashed potatoes, which meant I needed to scrub and cut and boil and mash potatoes.<\/p>\n
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And I realized that scrubbing potatoes is the PERFECT activity for my little ones to “help” with. I scrub with my Norwex Veggie and Fruit Scrub cloth – and the kids will barely notice the difference between that and a clean dishcloth. <\/p>\n
Off to the lawn with a bag of potatoes, a dishpan of water, a pan, my veggie cloth, and three dishcloths. Oh, and three preschoolers (the baby enjoyed watching from a nearby blanket!)<\/p>\n
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The kids “scrubbed” the potatoes and then handed them to me to finish. When all the potatoes were done, I dumped the extra water on the tomato plant and brought the potatoes inside.<\/p>\n
Then the kids (two relatively dry, one sopping wet) headed to the front porch with papa to hammer nails while I gave the potatoes a quick rinse and got them ready for the stove.<\/p>\n
Parenting win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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