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Hello Kraft Community, we are very excited to share some great news with you. As loyal Kraft Community members we have heard your desire to do more fun things in the community and we are happy to announce in January 2010 we will be making some changes so you can connect and share food ideas in more ways than ever!
We want to let you know we will not be transferring the existing discussions to the new enhanced message boards so if there are discussions that you would like to save please make sure to either print them or copy and paste into a document that you can save to your personal files.
We will remind you again before the transition occurs but wanted to let you in on the exciting news!!
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Moderator_Sky
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Nov 13, 2009 10:51 AM
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> My 4-year old just uses a regular table/dinner knife,
> and has since he was about 2 or 3. It has a blunt,
> rounded tip and is slightly serrated on one side.
> It's not sharp enough to cut through skin or fingers
> (I've tried!), but it works great with fruits,
> melons, cooked vegetables, and of course butter and
> peanut butter. He's always been the "I can do it
> myself" type so he picked up pretty quickly on how to
> use a knife. But in turn we also made sure that he
> understand his limitations with knives. He easily
> recognizes which knives are okay to use
> (dinner/plastic knives) and which he has to stay away
> from (what he calls "cutting" knives).
>
> At 4-years old children can do MANY things in the
> kitchen so long as the supervising adult just pays
> attention and is there to assist them. Of our 3 kids
> my 4-year old is the youngest and the one most eager
> to help out in the kitchen, and by allowing him to
> help and have many kitchen tasks he can complete on
> his own you can just see his confidence boost with
> each little thing he accomplishes.
My son, who is four, also has used a regular butterknife for quite some time now. And I totally agree with you when you say they can do so many things in the kitchen. My son, for example, can reheat his own leftovers.
He'll push a chair up to the counter, get a plate from the cabinet, get the leftovers from the fridge and put them on the plate, then put them in the microwave, pushing the "purple button" one time for pizza and two times for dinner leftovers. (The purple button is the start button, and pushing it without setting a time gives you 30 seconds for one push, 60 for two, etc.)
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Nov 13, 2009 10:31 AM
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My 4-year old just uses a regular table/dinner knife, and has since he was about 2 or 3. It has a blunt, rounded tip and is slightly serrated on one side. It's not sharp enough to cut through skin or fingers (I've tried!), but it works great with fruits, melons, cooked vegetables, and of course butter and peanut butter. He's always been the "I can do it myself" type so he picked up pretty quickly on how to use a knife. But in turn we also made sure that he understand his limitations with knives. He easily recognizes which knives are okay to use (dinner/plastic knives) and which he has to stay away from (what he calls "cutting" knives).
At 4-years old children can do MANY things in the kitchen so long as the supervising adult just pays attention and is there to assist them. Of our 3 kids my 4-year old is the youngest and the one most eager to help out in the kitchen, and by allowing him to help and have many kitchen tasks he can complete on his own you can just see his confidence boost with each little thing he accomplishes.
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Nov 3, 2009 9:37 PM
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Anna, I also do the same thing with my 4 year old. He like to use the cheeseball knife to prepare his own peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for his school lunch. I agree these knives really do work, and are very safe to use. 
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Moderator_Deanne
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Nov 3, 2009 9:21 AM
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> I wanted to share this ideal. My 4 yr.old
> granddaughter was helping me set the table, and of
> course she wanted a butter knife next to her plate,
> so I got one of my cheese ball knives and let her put
> it next to her plate. It is really helpful in
> teaching her how to use a knife. It's small enough
> for her and has a rounded tip and isn't sharp at all!
> You can only immagine the look on her Mom's face
>  when she ask for her knife and I told her to get
> it! Try it, it really works. annaskf
Aww, how cute! Thanks for sharing the idea.
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Nov 3, 2009 8:34 AM
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I wanted to share this ideal. My 4 yr.old granddaughter was helping me set the table, and of course she wanted a butter knife next to her plate, so I got one of my cheese ball knives and let her put it next to her plate. It is really helpful in teaching her how to use a knife. It's small enough for her and has a rounded tip and isn't sharp at all! You can only immagine the look on her Mom's face when she ask for her knife and I told her to get it! Try it, it really works. annaskf
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