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The Heart of the Home (Crumbs Included)

What grows when children take part in caring for home?

A kitchen can be a place for measuring, talking, belonging—and discovering crumbs in impossible locations.

Try five quick true-or-false questions—with a little humor and no timer. Check your answers to discover the ideas behind them.

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1 Kitchen helpers wanted

Only children who can complete a kitchen task without help benefit from taking part.

2 The fork situation

When a child sets all the forks beside one plate, the experience can still offer practice with counting and where things go.

3 A very important sponge

Wiping the table together can give a child a sense of contributing to a shared home.

4 The running commentary

A child learns more from helping with a meal when the adult talks nonstop and leaves no room for the child to join the conversation.

5 Math class, disguised

Every useful learning opportunity in the kitchen needs a formal lesson and a worksheet.

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