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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.
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...
13 Red Flags of Disordered Eating for Kids and Teens
Do any of these sound familiar? Picky eating Avoiding certain foods Emotions around mealtimes Tummy issues Is it sensory issues, clean eating, or disordered eating? Read on to see if these 13 red flags of disordered eating resonate. Disordered Eating 101 Disordered eating is on the rise. Between diet culture’s focus on “clean eating” and...
151: Could Your Picky Eater Need More…Sleep??!
You know how even though it feels like what happens to our body might not affect the mind and vice versa? That’s not the only place where seemingly unrelated systems are actually interdependent… We have one body to work with on this journey called life, and it’s alllll connected. Sarah Fenrich, an occupational therapist, and...
148: Dr. Tom Moorcroft: Bacteria, Viruses, and Mystery “Chronic” Illnesses
Put your seatbelts and your thinking caps on, folks, this one is packed with info! Dr. Tom Moorcroft and I went deep about mystery illnesses (with “chronic” in quotation marks for a very good and inspiring reason) and we even circled around to the virus of the hour and how the long haul form is...
147: Holistic Parenting & Raising Resilient Kids Who Own Their Health
I know you think I do these interviews for YOU because I’m a good person who wants to help everyone become better parents and raise healthy kids…but sometimes I feel like it’s just for ME to learn new things and get reminders about practices I need to adjust!! 😉 Ok…it’s for both of us. My...