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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.
194: Helping Kids Get Curious About New Foods with Food Explorer Arielle “Dani” Lebovitz MS, RDN, CSSD, CDCES
We’re going to get super practical today on the Healthy Parenting Connector so get a pen and notebook and take some notes! I’m talking with food explorer Dani Lebovitz about helping your picky eater by exploring foods (mostly away from the table and mealtime!) We’ll share specific activities and ideas for exploring cranberries, citrus fruits,...
192: Parenting for the Future: How to Help Your Pre-teen or Teen Turn a Strength into a Job with Jonathan and Renee Harris of Parent Their Passion
Jonathan and Renee are the parents to my husband’s “right-hand man” in his small software business…and their son has been working there since he was 16! I’m fascinated and inspired by their stories of not just one, but SIX of their kids who are following their passions AND making money from it, with zero college...
191: What’s Going on Inside Your Highly Sensitive Child? with Dr. Aimie Apigian
I couldn’t stop using the word “fascinating” in all of my reactions to what Dr. Aimie Apigian teaches us today! If you have a highly sensitive kid, the kind who struggles with loud noises, bright lights, scratchy tags, squishy food OR is just emotionally reactive – some might say “over dramatic” – this is a...
190: Break Kids Out of the Cyclone of Anxiety with Jess Sherman, M.Ed, RHN
Anxiety – the cyclone of stress! It’s not helpful to keep looking for a root cause of anxiety. It’s not the gut, it’s not the food, and it’s not the gluten… it’s more helpful to think of it as a cyclical thing. Kids are caught in a self-perpetuating cyclone of stress. Jess Sherman, M.Ed, RHN...
189: The Most Important Trait Our Kids Need in Order to Thrive: Empathy with Michele Borba, Ed.D.
With everything we juggle as parents, wouldn’t it be nice to know the MOST important skill to pass on to our kids? Is it academic success? (nope) Is it staying organized? (nope) Could it be speaking up for ourselves? Managing stress in healthy ways? (nope and nope) Yes, all those are important to varying degrees,...
187: What Your Fatigue Might Be Telling You About Your Adrenals with Dr. Izabella Wentz
It turns out that (surprise surprise!) our bodies are ALL connected. The thyroid and the adrenals have some interesting relationships, and in today’s show “The Thyroid Pharmacist” Dr. Izabella Wentz sits down with me to talk about fatigue, why parents shouldn’t expect to be tired all the time, and what we can do to optimize...
185: Your Child’s Eyes Need Care Too! (with Dr. Neda Gioia)
When it comes to functional medicine or whole body health, we often realize that everything is connected – BUT when is the last time your eye doctor asked you about nutrition? Dr. Neda Gioia joins me today to do just that, and truly opened my eyes (ha! Yes, pun intended!) to the interconnectivity of our...
184: How to Raise Siblings Who Love Each Other
It’s a classic image: Family road trip. Brothers and sisters fighting in the back seat, often so severely that the parents have to “pull over this van right now!” To do what? To repair relationships that are broken? To fix something in one minute of yelling or cajoling that has taken years to develop? Whenever...
182: From a TV in the Corner to the Internet in Our Pockets: What Parents Can Do to Help Tweens and Teens Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology
Andrea Davis of Better Screen Time is back! I can’t tell you how much our own family needed these strategies and tech-use resets, and I know you need it too! Today we’re focusing more specifically on our tweens and teens and how to decide when (or if!) a child gets a personal device. We cover:...
181: The Science of Friendship (and Why That Matters to Our Health) with Psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco
Will you be my friend? It’s easy for the 4-year-old in the sandbox to approach another kid and make a friend, but as adults, making new friends AND finding time to keep up with our old friends is a challenge! It was my delight to spend quality time connecting with Dr. Marisa G. Franco, a...