I’ve been a bit of a slacker mom in the area of encouraging my children to make their own snacks, fetch their own drinks, etc. I’m trying to play catch-up.
Usually I serve fruit as a snack, but Kiddo always wants his cut up, which I find quite annoying. He can cut bananas up himself with a blunt knife
What snacks do your kids fix themselves?
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This is about an extent of what Anna can do on her own. No peeling yet, just cutting soft things or spreading cream cheese on bread.
It takes all my patience not to do it for him, but my four year old makes his own pb&j. The first time it took him about twenty minutes and I had to leave the room just so I wouldn't take over. He also knows to take an apple from the table and wash it himself when he wants one.
Yes! I does take a LOT of patience for me, too.
My kids don't fix their own snacks, and they're 6 and 4, so how's that for slacking? No really, it's b/c I'm a nutrition control freak and my older daughter if left to her own devices would probably eat, like, an entire box of cereal and then throw up. (Not from bulimia; from eating too much cereal. argh. Um..) She has zero sense of portion control. But if you mean, cut up your own banana, yes, they can do that.
Fruit is the easiest, especially if you have the right tools:
Apples – if cut in half through the middle (so you can see the seed star) the apple becomes stable enough for the young ones to use an apple corer/slicer. They can then sprinkle a little cinnamon on or even better use a tiny grater with a cinnamon stick to make their own.
Pickles – same as with the bananas they can slice their own (though my kids don't like pickles)
Oranges – can use a largish good quality plastic knife to cut in half and a stable juicer to make own.
Clementines – to peal themself
Drinks – we have 2 small pitchers kept in the door of the fridge that they can pour themselves, 1 with milk – 1 with juice.
I don't like to leave crackers, chips or even cheese sticks within reach because then that's all they'll eat.
Eleanor can toast a mini bagel and spread peanut butter on it herself, but that's usually her breakfast not a snack.
OK, I better stop or my comment will turn into a book.
(ps – bummed I missed your book give away)