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.

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...

Episode 001: Welcome to the Healthy Parenting Handbook with Katie Kimball!

We’re so glad you’ve joined us, mindful parents, for this podcast on raising healthy, independent kids. 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,...

Not all anxiety is bad. When it becomes so troublesome that we can't function, then we need to seek help. -Dr. Uma Naidoo

205: Anxiety and Food ARE Connected (What Parents Can Do to Calm Their Kids’ Brains) with Dr. Uma Naidoo, MD

Anxiety is increasing like CRAZY not only in adults, but our teens and even our precious little ones. Where is it all coming from? The pandemic played a role to be sure, but what happens TO us is only one piece of the puzzle. What’s happening IN our bodies and brains cannot be understated. Dr....

204: My Favorite Clips from Episodes 101-199 of the Healthy Parenting Connector

Remember when I tried to share a “fav clips show” for episode 200 of the Healthy Parenting Connector and failed? There were just too many incredible interviews, so I rounded up the first 100 and promised a “part 2” for the next 100 episodes. Here we go! I chose interview guests from whom I’ve learned...

The Pill has done a disservice to women's health because it's become a bandaid for symptoms instead of getting to the root causes. -Grace Stark

203: Don’t Have “the Talk” with Your Girls – How Fertility Empowers Pre-Teens and Beyond with Grace Emily Stark and Jackie Aguilar of Natural Womanhood

Ladies, how many of your friends have some sort of issue that has to do with hormones (rhetorical question)? Thyroid, infertility, estrogen dominance, acne, mood swings, migraines, painful periods, rough peri or actual menopause, etc. If our girls can understand the natural cycles of their bodies and the purpose of feminine hormones early on, they’ll...

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