As a teacher in my past life, a food literacy advocate in my current, and a parent now and forever, the school holidays is the best and the worst time to talk about getting kids into the kitchen.
The best, because what better opportunity to for them to learn valuable life-skills such as adaptability, resilience and curiosity? Let alone the ability to feed themselves, while building up numeracy and literacy through measuring or calculating ingredients, and following instructions (or creating their own).