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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.
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...
178: 3 Ways to Simplify Your Schedule by Scheduling Your Food
A real food diet can be a time-consuming lifestyle – I might even venture to say that making unprocessed food from scratch and running around to specialty markets or farms for natural organic food to eat is a greater time-suck than (gasp) Facebook. As you balance your kids and your healthy eating goals, how about...
177: What Happened When the 8 Year Old Snuck Halloween Candy – Twice!
We’ve edited our “family dessert” policies many times over the years, and we’re always trying to balance moderation vs restriction, autonomy vs parental boundaries, and the risks of demonizing sugar and creating desire vs the reality that sugar is NOT good for humans. This fall, our 8yo is giving us a run for our money,...
176: How Brain Science Can Help Us Raise More Balanced Kids with Deborah McNelis of The Neuro-Nurturing Model
Understanding is power, and when we understand the way our brains (and our kids’ brains!) work, we have the power to improve behavior, help our kids feel safe, and see what’s really going on “under the hood” when we’re trying to help our kids grow into people we’re all proud of. My guest today is...
175: The Root Cause for Everything That’s Wrong with You with Barton Scott of Upgraded Formulas
This guest had me at, “All diets fail,” and the mineral pretty much every human being (at least in North America) is deficient in. I know what you’re thinking, smart readers—you think it’s magnesium. But it’s not! Put on your science geek caps for this interview, because biochemist and nutritionist Barton Scott will need your...