Healthy Parenting Handbook Podcast

Having kids quickly makes you feel like you’re not very smart at all! They don’t come with a handbook! But what if there was a parenting handbook, one that would align with your healthy living values as well?

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.

Healthy Parenting Handbook Podcast listen now

Start Listening

Apple Podcast
Spotify
Podcast index logo
Amazon Music
I Heart Radio logo

See show notes for each episode right here.

It is hard living in this modern world and Katie is a voice of reason, hope and encouragement with practical tools to help our families grow and thrive in way that honors God. I struggle with boundaries around food and screens and all the things but knowing there is someone out there doing it, helps me to implement the changes I know I need for a healthy and thriving family. Thank you Katie!

kateskahn on iTunes

Meet Your Host, Katie Kimball, CSME

Katie Kimball

Katie is the creator at Raising Healthy Families, and is the CEO of Kitchen Stewardship®, LLC. She is passionate about connecting families around healthy food, and as a trusted educator and author of 8 real food cookbooks, she’s been featured on media outlets like ABC, NBC and First for Women magazine and contributes periodically on the FOX Network.

Since 2009, busy moms have looked to Katie as a trusted authority and advocate for children’s health, and she often partners with health experts and medical practitioners to stay on the cutting edge. In 2016 she created the Wall Street Journal recommended best online kids cooking course, Kids Cook Real Food, helping thousands of families around the world learn to cook.

A mom of 4 kids from Michigan, she is also a Certified Stress Mastery Educator (CSME), member of the American Institute of Stress and trained speaker through Bo Eason’s Personal Story Power. You can watch her TEDx talks about picky eating in childhood and learning critical thinking.

Most Recent Episodes

Picky eater? Meat aversions and starchy carb cravings can be a sign of leaky gut! -Tara Hunkin

March 10, 2026

Troubleshoot Your Child’s Poor Digestion

No time to watch the whole video? Here are the notes! Poor Digestion for Kids Video Time Stamps Symptoms of Poor Digestion in Kids Acid reflux is a sign of low stomach acidity, NOT high. -Tara Hunkin, NTP Trickle Down Effects of Poor Digestion First Steps to Healing Your Child’s Gut If your child is…

Take baby steps for real change.

March 3, 2026

Ask Me Anything: Picky Eating, Screen Time, and Intentional Choices

YouTube Shorts for This Episode Key Takeaways from Q&A with Katie Picky Eating & Dessert at Parties Key Point: Requiring a child to eat something before dessert turns dessert into the prize and real food into the obstacle. That pressures their autonomy and can quietly damage their long-term relationship with food. Action Step: Feed your…

Let's start with this: Our bodies are designed perfectly. -Elissa Arnheim

February 24, 2026

Quick Change Tastebuds, Slow Biology, & Why Gut Health May Impact Picky Eating

YouTube Shorts for This Episode Check out our YouTube Shorts Channel for the Healthy Parenting Handbook No time for the video? Here are the notes! (These align with the video and not the audio podcast, but should be close.) Picky Eating and Gut Health If a child cuts out an entire category of healthy foods,…

Crowd Favorite Episodes

ADHD is not an attention disorder. It's an executive functioning developmental disorder. - Michael McLeod

June 3, 2025

The ADHD Brain Is an Addicted Brain – Shattering Myths About ADHD and Executive Function and Pouring out Hope for Families

  No time for the video? Here are the notes! Myths About ADHD 1:27: Today, I’m talking with a man on a mission. Michael McLeod improves the quality of life for youth and families with ADHD with specialized support through the GrowNOW treatment model.  3:41: Mike has worked with kids and adults with ADHD for…

Middle school is the last best chance to instill values and cement your relationship with your kids. -Phyllis Fagell

August 13, 2024

Episode 34: What Middle Schoolers Need to Thrive with Counselor Phyllis Fagell

I learned today that I still have a lot of internal tendencies from middle school. 😮 Middle school can be a foreign land and a tumultuous time, and figuring out how to parent middle schoolers is hard on parents. We want our kids to be happy, resilient, and thriving, not wilting, crying, and worrying. As…

The release of emotion is where the healing takes place and how behaviors shift. -Tosha Schore

April 16, 2024

Episode 017: Discipline With No Punishment at All! (Especially for Parents of Aggressive Boys!) with Tosha Schore

I used Tosha’s tips the very DAY we recorded this interview, and I have to tell you—they work. So well. Once you hear about her strategy for reducing frustration and nipping “negative spirals” in the bud, you’ll know why when my husband spent a ton of time hanging with our 5-year-old, Gabe, over Christmas break,…

Do you forget everything immediately? (My hand is raised …)

That’s why we created the one-page summaries of each podcast episode, in a simple Google Doc so there’s nothing to download.

one-page cheat sheets for the Healthy Parenting Handbook podcast

Print them off and make yourself an actual handbook or just view online and search for what you want!

Katie Kimball is my go-to expert on all things eating/meal time/food-related! Her advice is always practical and easy to implement, which makes her one of our most trusted advisors for the Positive Parenting Solutions community. I’m honored to be a guest on Katie’s podcast!

Amy McCready