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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.
Do You Have “Earn It” or “Flip Flop” Family Values?
A hard work ethic and moderate risk taking are two qualities I hope to instill in my kids. We end up practicing both through our hiking and national park touring—during July 2022, we’ll likely hit 150 miles as a family (with four kids ages 7, 10, 14, and 17). Out on the trail, if there’s ever a moment my...
The Importance of Teaching Life Skills Now | #LifeSkillsNow
As adults, we might be expected to spend “approximately” 40 hours of our 168 in a week at our jobs. IF we sleep the requisite 8 hours (who does??), that leaves us with 72 waking hours left in the week, nearly twice as many as we spend using those college degrees and high school diplomas,...
163: How to Predict your Child’s Future Health (in 20 minutes or less) with Dr. Brian Stenzler
What if you could have an idea of your child’s future health without drawing blood and testing genetics? Dr. Brian Stenzler can help you get that information in 20 minutes with his D.R.E.A.M. Wellness score, and we talk today about flipping quite a number of “health” paradigms on their heads. I left with a to-do...
162: Teaching Kids the Value of Money and Joy in Spending — and Saving with Mike Michalowicz
If you want to be told you’re a great parent instead of a mean parent because you have high expectations of your kids and disciplined rules in place, THIS is your chance! My guest today is a million-dollar business builder…and loser…and “learn from the burn” kind of guy. Let’s all learn from his own failures...
161: 3 Reasons Giving Kids Responsibilities Is a Gift
We live in a world where some parents are hesitant to ask their kids to do chores or take on responsibility, maybe because we want to make their lives easier and let them enjoy childhood, or maybe because it’s just faster and easier to do it ourselves. Either way, if your kids don’t have responsibilities...
160: How to Raise Kids Who Think Like Entrepreneurs
She had 14 jobs by the time she was 22 and started her own business—wouldn’t you love to know HOW her parents raised her to be so hard-working and industrious? Jodie Cook is passionate about entrepreneurship and helping kids develop entrepreneurial skills early. Her stories are SO encouraging, and I know you’ll love listening to...
158: What to Do About Healthy Eating on Vacation
Traveling for spring break? Love to get away from home for the summer? What’s a healthy eating family to do? We all know that eating out is rarely full of nutrients, often makes people feel sluggish, is difficult for allergy/food sensitivity fams AND is hellooooooo expensive! I’m excited to share how many times we ate...
156: When Food Prices Skyrocket, How to Calm the Panic with a Flexible Grocery Budget from Tiffany Crumbs
Those grocery prices, they are a’risin’!!! It’s a little scary out there, between the prices going up constantly and stock being low or even gone on the things we love. What’s a family on a budget to do? Tiffany of Don’t Waste the Crumbs is a MASTER at saving money on groceries while not compromising...
155: Cara Harvey on Healthy Routines that Create Purpose
Raise your hand if you feel overwhelmed every so often or like your to-do lists will never end? I’m always convicted when I hear people talk about being reactive in the day only to the urgent at the expense of being proactive to the important – and my guest today, Cara Harvey, hit me with...
152: Feeding Toddlers (& Other Picky Eaters) Confidently with Dietician Edwena Kennedy, RD
I’m in awe over how much has changed about feeding babies and toddlers in just the 15 years since I had to learn it the first time. Less stress, less structure, but even MORE importance to get it right if you ask me! I asked dietician Edwena Kennedy to join me today to help parents...