Children love to cook!
Increasingly, we see more cooking incorporated into curriculum at schools. Jamie Oliver, the British celebrity chef, has been tremendously influential in educating the way schoolchildren view cooking. Michelle Obama has made exercise and nutrition in schools a priority.
As Director of an after-school program, I have worked with children for many years. During this time, I have come to appreciate the many benefits of yoga for kids. After-school programs offer many varied enrichment opportunities (as they should), but the yoga classes stood apart.
Following a day cooped up at their desks, children usually came to the program rambunctious and with the day’s pent-up energy and frustrations. I would send them into their class with silent sympathy for the yoga teacher. They came out an hour later noticeably tranquil and calmed.