Kiko’s apron is handmade – blogged here.
What do you do with your kids on rainy days? I have the biggest struggle of my parenting life finding things to do on rainy days for Kiko. Today was one of those days. It was cold and rainy out, and I was tired after work. I know Kiko likes to go to the community center to play with other kids and it is indoors, but sometimes I just am not in the mood for sitting there and watching her play, or worse, if she happens to want to exclusively play with me rather than playing with other kids..what’s the point of taking her to the community center!
Anyway, instead of the community center, we baked today. It was a lot of fun! We made banana muffins, and I used an easy recipe I found online that uses pancake mix, so I was able to skip the baking powder and flower mixture part.
Kiko “helped” a lot, from peeling the banana skin, stirring the dough, bringing the dishes to the sink and finally, helping with cleaning the bowl.
I wish my story ends here. It was all fun until then, but eventually I had to ask her to give the bowl back to me so we could move on to the next activity. I thought I gave her enough time. I talked with her, that she spent enough time licking the bowl and I wanted her to give the bowl back. She eventually gave it back to me, but with a whine and cry. Oh that wasn’t fun. I feel like it ruined all the fun time we had baking together. How would you deal with this kind of situation?
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Dana says
Hi. My daughter is a few months younger than Chie and she doesn’t really know how to share, so to get something from her I usually have to trade her some other thing she might be interested in 🙂 Let me know if it works for you
Lisa Ong says
Aww… Don’t feel so bad.. Most mummies including me went through that. I baked with my daughter too, and most of the time she beats the flour out of the bowl, poking her fingers into the batter and poking it back., causing more mess than I can handle, and I always ended up scolding her. When that happens, I always remind myself, that at this point, results doesn’t really matter, it’s the process which is important. Then again, I also wanted to teach her the values of doing it right.. Yeah, what a confused mom! Well then, we just need to strike a balance.
Chie says
Thank you so much! I guess I am expecting a bit too much out of two year old.. glad to hear that other mother struggles with the same too