Healthy Parenting Handbook with Katie Kimball

We talked last week about STRESS and its impact on our health and our relationship with our families. I challenged you to be more aware of your breath and take the “Moment to Breathe” challenge, and a few of you chimed in after trying it that it’s really working!! Personally I found being aware of my breath and its ability to control my bodily reaction to stress to be life changing and revolutiona...

Raise your thumb if you feel STRESS on a normal day! We busy moms (and dads) tend to experience stress and feel it right down to our breathing and heart rate, and it affects the way we parent, our productivity, and our own mental AND physical health . Today I’m so excited to use my stress mastery training to teach you about how our brains respond to stress, how it affects our bodies, and best of a...

Ryan Pink is a survivor. Like many of us, he’s faced some hard things, and has come out the other side swinging. In this episode, we dive pretty deeply into trauma - what it is and isn’t, and how we can protect our kids from trauma digging too deeply into them. Ryan walks through his own healing journey, including how expensive it was (I hope you’re sitting down!). That experience led him to ask a...

How does a mom get time for herself to dream? She uses a system! My guest today founded Mom University to give moms the training, tools, and support for the most important job they will ever do. In this episode, she’ll teach us about a proven method for figuring out what that “thing” is outside of motherhood that you really want, and then making it happen - without sacrificing your family in the p...

Sensory Processing Disorder refers to difficulties that happen in some children where their brain struggles to make sense of input coming from the sensory environment. Information comes to our brain through our five senses. The brain has to make sense of it so that we can react appropriately. The brains of kids with SPD struggle to make sense of this information quickly and effectively. This usual...

See full show notes at kidscookrealfood.com/009 . Plenty of parents complain about their kids being "so darn picky!" (including me, even though I know I shouldn't use that word!). But what IS a picky eater , really? Did you know: Only about 1/3 of kids are actually picky, although 50% struggle age 2-3. Only about 25% of kids outgrow it. 5-10% are problem feeders and need professiona...

Picky eating has always been a tricky challenge for parents, but did you know it’s been getting worse in the last few decades and particularly since the stress of the pandemic? Parents are frustrated and not sure what to do, partly because the root cause of picky eating is often not even in the food itself. I’ve been teaching kids to cook for eight years and realized that what parents need most is...

I realized during this interview (and never before) that my own husband had a tic off and on for years in our early marriage and before. Seriously! He was always told it was either neurological/anxiety or that he should see an eye doctor (who didn’t know what to do). For years we tried to figure out environmental patterns like what season or climate/city/state it might happen in or stop happening...

Six million kids in America are diagnosed with ADHD . ADHD expert and health practitioner Dana Kay asks a very important question about that number: How many of those diagnoses are real ADHD? Her story will bring tears to your eyes but also hope to your heart, and after helping her own son find healing, this fierce mama bear is now on a mission so that other families with this diagnosis don’t have...

Our interview guest today has been a journalist and writer for many years and earned herself the title of “Worst Mom in America.” I’m so proud to interview her because she earned that title when she let her 9-year-old ride the subway alone and wasn’t afraid to write about it in a major publication. 🙂 Growing wings from the firestorm that ensued, she published a book called Free-Range Kids and has...

I am a better person, a better parent, every single time I listen to Amy McCready's coaching. There's a good reason she is a TODAY Show parenting expert, my goodness - the way she explains why consequences aren't the answer, how rewards set our kids up for massive problems (blew my mind!!) and gives us practical toolbox phrases we can just start using today , it's truly enrichi...

We're so glad you've joined us, mindful parents, for this podcast on raising healthy, independent kids. 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, independ...

We all know that most pediatricians get about 2 hours of nutrition training, which means some of them give food advice and probably shouldn’t and most don’t bother with food at all. But FOOD is the ROOT CAUSE of so much of what ails our kids! Dr. Song goes above and beyond normal MD training with all her holistic background and she’s 150% qualified to tell us a little about our kids’ diets. Today...

Chicken nuggets. Pizza. Burgers and fries. Mac and cheese. What do all those foods have in common ? They're identified as "kid food" by children and adults alike. What else? They're often served in a highly processed, low-nutrient fashion, and I don't see many veggies on the list . My guest today, Bettina Elias Siegel, has been an advocate for school food reform for over 1...

It's finally here!  Our audience has been asking for a podcast version of our video show, The Healthy Parenting Connector, for YEARS. We're finally launching on January 9, so hit that subscribe button wherever you listen to podcasts.  I am Katie Kimball, a mom of 4 kids ages 18-9, a trained educator, who has been blogging about my natural living journey since 2008.  We're SO excited...