My daughter loves to bake as many children love to do. Today she wanted to make sugar cookies! We have a big container of cut outs that she wanted to use that contained letters, numbers, pumpkins, Xmas trees, snowmen, planes, and more! Needless to say, we had an assortment of cookies.
As you know, with sugar cookie dough, cutouts, sprinkles, etc. it gets quite messy! I don't know if she will ever remember today when she made holiday cookies in July but this is what I do know. I know that she will take her feelings of joy and laughter with her. Her self-esteem was boosted by the things she did; mixing and rolling the dough, doing the cut outs, and taking the baked cookies off the pan with a spatula. The internal joy and satisfaction she experienced when she decorated the cookies and how happy she was with the end result! :)
As our kids explore and discover, the more we embrace it and let them experience every part of it, the more empowered and excited they will be with whatever they do next!
This is truly the joy of parenting!
Dr. Nina
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