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.
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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!
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Meet Your Host, Katie Kimball, CSME
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
I couldn’t stop thinking about this interview with Jessica Joelle Alexander – and honestly, I haven’t stopped since! As a mom and as someone who teaches kids to cook and helps families connect around the table, I was deeply struck by how peacefully and intentionally Danish families seem to live: more play, less pressure; more…
In America, we tend to raise kids with a constant sense of striving. We measure success early, track milestones closely, and quietly worry about whether our children are doing enough, fast enough, and well enough. The Danish approach offers a striking contrast. Instead of pushing children to prove themselves, Danish parenting emphasizes something far more…
Today’s teen tidbit is number five, and it gets right to the heart of what’s actually happening in your teen’s brain right now! Somewhere around ages 11 or 12, kids move from a black and white way of thinking into a world full of gray, nuance, and questions, which is why “because I said so”…
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ADHD is not just an attention disorder; it’s an executive functioning disorder. The myths abound! If you’ve always thought of kids with ADHD as those who struggle in school, think again. If you expect ADHD kids to have trouble focusing, wrong again. If you think kids with ADHD are destined to struggle more throughout life,…
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…
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.
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!
