Jobs in the kitchen, by age

The sheet

Real jobs for a child at each age, with the safety lines that go with them, for cooking one thing together each week.

For the kitchen · A4 · One page · PDF, 49 KB

How it helps

Cooking one thing together each week gives you time side by side with something to do, which is often when children talk. A real job, done from start to finish, shows your child you trust them, and the list by age says how close to stay.

How to use it

1. Put the sheet up where you cook, and find your child’s age on it.
2. Choose one thing to cook together each week, and give them a real job from their column, all of it, with you as close by as the sheet says.
3. Read the safety lines together first, and check for allergies when a friend cooks too.
4. Eat it together afterwards, and talk about how it tastes. Leave out talk of how much anyone eats, of bodies, and of good and bad foods. If an eating disorder has been diagnosed or is being assessed, follow the plan your child’s team gives you.

How to get this sheet

This sheet comes with a subscription. It is also yours with its chapter, if that is the chapter you read free, or if a teacher or therapist sends it to you. School staff and therapists signed in to their shelf can print it too.

It goes with When They Stop Talking to You and Eating and Control.

Free to print

These are free to anyone, with nothing to sign up for.

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Every sheet, marked free or with a subscription, is at theparentbook.com/printables.