Parenting

In each episode of the Healthy Parenting Handbook Podcast, Katie Kimball, the national voice of healthy kids cooking, interviews experts in fields like nutrition, medicine, psychology, parenting, technology, entrepreneurship and more to help parents get tools to raise healthy, independent kids.

The Best Credit Cards for Students To Build Their Financial Future

This post is by JayDee Vykoukal for Parent Portfolio. Credit cards can be a valuable tool for students looking to build credit and establish good financial habits – as long as they’re used responsibly. However, with so many options available, it can be overwhelming for students to navigate the best credit cards. The following list...

Taking care of yourself is the best way to take care of other people. -Dr Heidi Hanna

Episode 015: Can We Help Our Highly Sensitive Kids Manage Their Stress Sensitivity? with Dr. Heidi Hanna

I’m so happy to have my stress mastery mentor here today! Heidi Hanna, PhD, is one of the most intellectual, intuitive and compassionate people I know, and I’m honored to host her wisdom today. We recorded this interview in March 2020, when we were all in a tailspin and figuring out managing our stress was...

here's thinking grateful thoughts and then feeling gratitude.

Episode 014: The BFF Strategy to Reduce Stress and Increase Your Mental Capacity!

We talked last week about STRESS and its impact on our health and our relationship with our families. I challenged you to be more aware of your breath and take the “Moment to Breathe” challenge, and a few of you chimed in after trying it that it’s really working!! Personally I found being aware of...

Episode 012: Hope for Healing: Childhood Trauma and Resilience with Ryan Pink

Ryan Pink is a survivor. Like many of us, he’s faced some hard things, and has come out the other side swinging. In this episode, we dive pretty deeply into trauma – what it is and isn’t, and how we can protect our kids from trauma digging too deeply into them. Ryan walks through his...

Episode 011: Balancing Motherhood and Self-Care by Simplifying with Chanelle Neilson

How does a mom get time for herself to dream? She uses a system! My guest today founded Mom University to give moms the training, tools, and support for the most important job they will ever do. In this episode, she’ll teach us about a proven method for figuring out what that “thing” is outside...

If you want your kids to eat their vegetables, you need to eat your vegetables.

Episode 010: Sensory Processing Disorder & How to Get Kids to Eat Healthy Anyway

Kids MORE than picky? They might have a sensory processing issue, and I cannot tell you how much I learned from Dr. Nicole Beurkens, PhD in this interview about helping kids eat healthy no matter their sensory limitations! These practical tips are amazing for kids who only eat 20 foods or less (but also apply...

Mainstream medicine says tics are purely neurological, but tics can be related to chronic inflammation, usually in the gut. -Dr. Piper Gibson

Episode 007: Do Tics Start in the Gut? Answers for Families of Kids with Autism with Dr. Piper Gibson

I realized during this interview (and never before) that my own husband had a tic off and on for years in our early marriage and before. Seriously! He was always told it was either neurological/anxiety or that he should see an eye doctor (who didn’t know what to do). For years we tried to figure...

Ensuring that the gut functions well is critical to the brain functioning well. -Dana Kay

Episode 006: An ADHD Diagnosis Doesn’t Have to Mean Medication with Dana Kay

Six million kids in America are diagnosed with ADHD – at least, that was the number in Fall 2021, but by the time this episode goes live, and by the time you’re listening – it may have gone up. ADHD expert and health practitioner Dana Kay asks a very important question about that number: How...

We forget how much our kids are capable of because we've been fed the lie that our kids are in constant danger, can only learn when we didactically teach them and they can't handle anything. -Lenore Skenazy

Episode 005: The “Worst Mom in America” on Raising Confident, Free-Range Kids with Lenore Skenazy of Let Grow

Our interview guest today has been a journalist and writer for many years and earned herself the title of “Worst Mom in America.” I’m so proud to interview her because she earned that title when she let her 9-year-old ride the subway alone and wasn’t afraid to write about it in a major publication. 🙂...

If we want to raise capable and unentitled kids rewards are just undermining that. -Amy McCready

Episode 004: Why Consequences (or Rewards) Aren’t the Goal of Discipline with Positive Parenting Solutions’ Amy McCready

I am a better person, a better parent, every single time I listen to Amy McCready’s coaching. There’s a good reason she is a TODAY Show parenting expert, my goodness – the way she explains why consequences aren’t the answer, how rewards set our kids up for massive problems (blew my mind!!) and gives us...

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