Parenting

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.

105: Cooking Up Routines to Make Healthy Meal Planning Doable with bestselling author Mareya Ibrahim

I love Mareya Ibrahim’s candid humor as we talk about why perhaps we shouldn’t be pursuing things that start with “die” like diets, why we don’t need to have a deprivation mindset to be healthy, and more. In this great interview with the bestselling author of “Eat Like You Don’t Give a Fork,” you’ll learn:...

104: Okay is the New Great – Parenting During a Pandemic

My brain literally lit up with realizations during this interview, and I realized WHY I procrastinate and better yet, the simple solution to stop doing it. Learn from parenting expert Jacqueline Green why silly may be the new serious, why “ok” MUST be the new great, and how simplified parenting is the new measure of...

Training our teens to be independent adults includes tech literacy.

103: Why Tech Time Has Nothing to Do With a Timer: Screen Time for Teens and Older Kids

If parents worried about too much screen time for kids and teens before the pandemic, we all know that the questions have increased. If my child is doing distance learning all day, is that too much screen time? Should I limit their screen use outside of school? What is the appropriate amount of screen time...

There's an expression of who they are when they create, no matter what it is. -Marcy Pusey

100: The Secret to Making “Talking” an Effective Parenting Strategy (And How Story Creates Resilience Safely)

We hear “kids are resilient, they’ll be ok,” a LOT, especially lately. This conversation with Marcy Pusey, a Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner, opened MY eyes to the fact that perhaps…they’re not. I thought we’d just be talking about the power of story, kind of a cute, sweet idea to share with you that some...

Batch cooking gives future you a gift. -Katie Kimball

98: Routines vs. Flexibility in Chores and Batch Cooking

Some organizing and parenting bloggers say you can’t survive without a routine. They have fancy charts and timetables, and they totally stress me out! On the other hand, it’s TRUE that I can’t survive without a routine—of some sort. Mine just has to have a good dose of flexibility built in to fit my personality....

Set up your kitchen in a way that makes sense to you. -Susan Santoro

97: Hot Tips to Organize Your Space with Kids AND Protect Your Budget and the Earth! (with Susan Santoro)

Sigh, those lovely pictures of “other people’s” organized kitchen on social media! There, I am not. But I don’t feel great when I look at my own kitchen/piles/surfaces! I called in an expert organizer today to talk about one of my weaknesses, organizing, with a focus on one of my strengths: saving money and saving...

We have to get out of the mindset that meal planning is a chore. -Jess Dang

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...

Parenting is a relationship with 3 elements: who I am, who my child is, and the tools I have. -Suzanne Tucker

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...

Your heart communicates with your brain more than your brain communicates to your heart. -Jeff Goelitz

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...

Even if you get a negative response from setting boundaries that doesn't mean it's a bad idea, it means parenting is hard. -Andi Grandy

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...

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