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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.
96: Meal Planning Doesn’t Have to Be Invisible Labor – How to Get Started and Get the Whole Family Involved
When I talk about stress mastery, I often share that the way we feel stress is all about our mental capacity, or load. Some days I can’t even walk into the kitchen and prepare dinner because it feels like “too much,” and then other days I can handle 2 kids being sick and a very...
94: Why Emotional Health is More Important Than Perfect Discipline with Suzanne Tucker
Some of these interviews challenge my brain so much!! If you’ve ever said, “Geez, stop whining,” to your kids, OR thought you were doing one better by pleasantly singing, “I hear a whiny voice!”—be ready to be challenged! Suzanne Tucker is a physical therapist and parent educator who is on a mission to raise an...
93: How the Heart-Brain Connection Will Increase Resilience and Reduce Anxiety for Families
We’re all about connection at Kids Cook Real Food™™, and today we get to learn about how to connect the heart and the brain to improve your physical, mental, and emotional health! The HeartMath Institute is all about the heart, not mushy-gushy stuff but real science-backed strategies to bring more heart to the world. In...
90: Don’t Let Anxious Kids Avoid Scary Things – What to do Instead with Family Therapist Andi Grandy
Family Therapist Andi Grandy spends much of her time helping parents get their anxious kids and teens to go to school. Straight up, they will let their cell phones be taken away and forfeit bribe payments because they really don’t want to go. Those aren’t the right strategies…but what is? I heard Andi speak in...
89: Breaking Down a Family Meeting Power Hour & Why You Need One
Routines are my kryptonite. 🙁 Anyone else? I feel like every time I set a schedule, I’ve just wasted time writing down that schedule because I don’t stick to it. BUT during this quarantine time, I knew we needed a little structure. Nothing too strict, but some routines without times attached to them. We haven’t...
88: Parenting Preschoolers with Intention
When parenting your preschooler doesn’t seem like the joyful experience you expected “BK” (Before Kids)…it might be too much of YOU and not enough of THEM. Montessori certified parenting expert and early childhood teacher Jeanne-Marie Paynel joins me today with incredible encouragement for parents of preschoolers. We talk about children’s basic needs and how parents...
86: Kicking Stress & Chaos to the Curb To Find the Best Parent Within You
Got stress? If parenting feels like one more thing that requires perfection (or at least better than everyone else’s expectations), Erin Taylor has much wisdom for you. In today’s interview with Erin, a certified parenting coach and mom of 4 who found her life’s work at age 11, you’ll learn: Why our expectations CAUSE our...
Anxiety Busters for Families in Times of Crisis
I love stress mastery for its impact on anxiety! Becoming a certified stress mastery educator was partly because I wanted to learn how to help others with this journey we’re on, but also because I needed these skills for myself! I’m so happy to have this foundation and knowledge to help us all through these...
85: Stressed Out, Distracted Moms Need Extra Focus on Forming Secure Attachments (Interview with Dr. Aimie Apigian)
I thought I’d be interviewing Dr. Aimie about “trauma kids,” like foster kids and adoptions and kids who have gone through horrific tragedies. Turns out 70-80% of adults need this info and likely more of our kids than that! 😮 😮 😮 This interview was recorded back in the fall, but what a timely message...
76: The Impact of “The ONE Thing” in Parenting
Could you choose “one thing” to do each day? “One” primary goal for your kids? Find out how “The One Thing” business and productivity philosophy relates to parenting successful children, and let’s start the conversation: What’s your “one thing” in parenting for your kids? I thought of applying this business strategy to parenting when I...