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The Kitchen Wasn't Designed for Kids
How reducing barriers helps kids cook more independently and confidently.
 • Sophie Mortner
The Sunday Dinners That Changed How I Think About Learning
How cooking through The Family Meal cookbook revealed that the skills we use in the kitchen are the same skills we use to learn.
 • Sophie Mortner
Executive Function: Why Cooking Is the Perfect Place to Practice
Understanding the skills behind everyday tasks and how to strengthen them in the kitchen
 • Sophie Mortner
Cooking as Care: Raising Kids Who Show Up for Others
How Cooking Gives Kids Agency to Show Gratitude
 • Sophie Mortner
A Tour of Nibblings
The learning design behind the website and kid recipes
 • Sophie Mortner
Designing a Shared Kitchen that Supports Independence and Real Participation
How real tools invite kids into meaningful work
 • Sophie Mortner
From Sesame Street to the Kitchen: Designing Learning That Sticks
What Sesame Street taught us about co-viewing and how the same model belongs in the kitchen
 • Sophie Mortner
Motivation, Joy, and the Making of a Lifelong Learner
How interest and joy help learning stick
 • Sophie Mortner
Why Timers Matter: Building Executive Function Through Everyday Cooking
How a Simple Kitchen Tool Helps Kids Build Time Awareness and Independence
 • Sophie Mortner
A Grown-Up’s Role: Preparing, guiding, and supporting your kid in their learning
The balance between support, independence, and trust
 • Sophie Mortner
Why Cleaning Up Belongs in the Recipe
Supporting kids in developing the executive functioning skills to clean up after themselves
 • Sophie Mortner
Kitchen Failures
Why mistakes matter and how cooking gives kids a safe space to take risks.
 • Sophie Mortner
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