What are kids going to do this summer? Kids Cook Real Food™
offers a free virtual summer camp with one hundred life skills
workshops for kids and teens ages 5-18 and their parents
June 24-28. Experts in the fields of
finance, entrepreneurship, organization, cooking, gardening,
wellness and more created short 5-30 minute videos to give kids a
quick taste of a variety of topics. These 70 experts give campers a
"mission" in each workshop, an action step to implement in the real
world. Families can enter to win 200 prizes valued at over
$9,000 total by completing
missions.
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RAPIDS, Mich. , June 6, 2024
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- In 2020 Katie Kimball, founder of Kids Cook
Real Food™, realized she could serve parents who were shocked by
summer camp cancellations. She gave away her cooking class to
10,000 families for free. Campers' excitement led to "summer camp"
being a regular event at Kids Cook Real Food™.
The #LifeSkillsNow version of camp began in 2022 serving
25,000 families; now in its third year Kimball expects 50,000
families to register for the complementary camp week.
In a world where one-third of college
students can't boil an egg and youth anxiety is at an all-time
high, Kimball says, "Children need authentic skills to build
confidence and agency, which are the ultimate anxiety
antidotes."
This year's 70 experts include regular CNBC and Fox News guest
David Bahnsen, former TODAY Show
parenting contributor Amy McCready,
co-star of the National Geographic series The Great Human Race Dr.
Bill Schindler, Money Saving Mom
Crystal Paine, and many integrative pediatricians, bestselling
authors, TEDx speakers, CEOs, Ph.Ds and more. Previous camper mom
Jodi T. shared about #LifeSkillsNow: "My whole family LOVED this
event! Very educational and informative! My friends even thanked me
for telling them about it!"
In a world where one-third of college students can't boil an egg
and youth anxiety is at an all-time high, Kimball says, "Children
need authentic skills to build confidence and agency, which are the
ultimate anxiety antidotes." Previous camp leader Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids and
co-founder of the Let Grow Project with social psychologist
Jonathan Haidt, says, "We have to
get out of the mindset that only academics matter when it comes to
learning." She claims, "We've been fed the lie that our kids are in
constant danger and can't handle anything," and calls skills like
using sharp knives and woodworking tools "beneficial risks." Every
time your child does something that scares them a bit like climbing
a tree or walking through the neighborhood alone, they dose
themselves with a tiny bit of fear and it empowers them and builds
up their tolerance for doing hard things.
According to learner.com, over 70% of students experience a
decline in math skills over the summer, and students may lose up to
two months of reading proficiency, often referred to as the summer
slide. Skip the boring workbooks; real world applications like
starting a business and keeping a ledger give kids ample
opportunity to keep up their skills. The 2024 #LifeSkillsNow summer
camp teaches academic soft skills as well, including effective
notetaking, organizing schedules and projects with Trello, tools to
reduce test anxiety, and how to plan ahead.
Families, grandparents, schools, homeschool groups, and churches
can register now for free at
https://kidscookrealfood.com/summercamp and receive 13 workshops to
get started on right away while waiting for free camp week,
June 24-28. All 100 skills are in the
last FAQ on that page.
About Kids Cook Real Food™:
Kids Cook Real Food™ began helping families by teaching cooking
skills to kids in 2016. Now having served over 100,000 families,
the course was named the best online cooking class for kids by the
Wall Street Journal. Founder and two-time TEDx speaker Katie Kimball says the mission of the
organization is to connect families around healthy food and build
confidence in the youth by teaching them to cook.
For more information, or to schedule an interview, please
contact Katie Kimball at
616-947-4731 or katie@kidscookrealfood.com.
Image credits: Kids Cook Real Food™
Media Contact
Katie Kimball, Kitchen
Stewardship, LLC & Kids Cook Real Food, 1 6169474731,
katie@kitchenstewardship.com,
https://kidscookrealfood.com/summercamp
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