Healthy Parenting Handbook with Katie Kimball

We just celebrated 10 years of teaching kids to cook online, which honestly feels surreal. It still feels like yesterday that we were filming the very first lessons, crossing our fingers, and wondering if anyone would even want this.
Fast forward a decade and nearly 20,000 families served, and the answer is clear. This work matters. It is changing kitchens, confidence levels, and family dynamics in real ways.
Over the years, parents have consistently asked me about two skills that go beyond what we teach inside Kids Cook Real Food:
How to help kids meal plan
How to help kids grocery shop
These are higher level executive functioning skills. They build on cooking, but they are a step further. They require decision making, budgeting, and thinking ahead. That is why they were never part of the original Kids Cook Real Food course.
For a long time, I knew these skills belonged in a future, more advanced program for teens and young adults. And now, that next step is almost here!! They are a big part of Teens Cook Real Food, which releases to the public on January 26, 2006!! (But only for a week right now, so put it on your calendar.)
Today we'll hit on steps 1-3 of meal planning on a budget!
Resources We Mention for Meal Planning on a Budget
Some tips to stretch your meat and save money
More tips for reducing food waste
Meal planning is the key to healthy eating
Routines to make healthy meal planning doable
3 Habits to help your grocery budget with high inflation
More tips and recipes to save you mone
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Kitchen Stewardship
Raising Healthy Families
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Somewhere between “I can do hard things” and “Can you order for me?” is a whole lot of teen growth waiting to happen.
Arthur C. Woods has spent decades working with teens, and he brings a refreshingly practical take on leadership that starts way earlier than a title, a team captain badge, or a future resume. We talk about why teens are more capable than we think, why they are not always being challenged to prove it, and how everyday life skills at home connect directly to leadership, resilience, and work readiness.
In this episode, we cover
Why many teens are entering adulthood less prepared, even with more resources than ever
How to raise “work ready” teens before they ever clock in for a first job
Why adaptability is both a mindset and a daily practice (especially when things change)
A simple definition of leadership that makes every teen a leader right now
Arthur’s SPARK framework for emerging leaders (and what “singularity” means for teens)
How chores and life skills build leadership (not because of the task, but because of the skill of learning skills)
We loved Arthur in #LifeSkillsNow Season Two, and I know you'll love hearing from him today!
Resources We Mention for Work-Ready Teens
Check out Work-Ready Teens from Arthur C. Woods and use code KCRF for $30 off!
Grab Arthur’s book SPARK for Emerging Leaders (Amazon/Bookshop.org)
Start building life skills with #LifeSkillsNow
Interview with Amy Carney on launching your teens and teaching them life skills
Teach teens cooking and cleaning right now! 
Visit Arthur at his website Arthur C. Woods, or check out his socials: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube,
Visit raisinghealthyfamilies.com/teens to get on the waitlist for Teens Cook Real Food!
Get four free life skills workshops now at raisinghealthyfamilies.com/skills
Kitchen Stewardship
Raising Healthy Families
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Way back when my husband and I were new-ish parents, he read a headline that talked about parents being "bone tired" at the end of the day.
For years, we referred to that phrase: "We're BONE TIRED. Parents are all BONE TIRED." (Put a little lilt and emphasis on "bone" and you can hear us in your head now.)
As it turns out, Dr. Evan Hirsch would recommend that we stop with those negative thoughts, because they're not going to take us anywhere good. He's an international expert on chronic fatigue (and now long haulers), and this was an interview I was HIGHLY looking forward to. I was right!
Prepare to be fascinated by Dr. Hirsch's wisdom on:
The 33 causes of fatigue
How you KNOW you have chronic fatigue (and aren't just bone tired like every other parent out there - and it's way easier than I expected to figure it out!)
Why solving your chronic fatigue may also make you live longer
Why some people become long haulers and others don't (this has fascinated me for a while and I couldn't wait to discuss it!)
Dr. Hirsch's process for helping people reverse chronic fatigue (that more or less translates to long haul)
How you know if 5 jumping jacks is pushing your body too much
A simple "recipe" to raise healthy kids (i.e. what an integrative MD would tell you to do to prevent your kids from getting chronic illnesses and BOOST their real energy—not the sugar-laden kind—to help them live happier lives now)
THE most important technique he recommends to everyone, preventative and restorative (and there are only 4 steps to it and zero cost!!!)
I'm going to be thinking about this interview for a long time...can't wait to hear what you think about it.
Resources We Mention for Chronic Fatigue
Dr. Hirsch would like to give you a FREE PDF download of his book Tired of Being Tired that has helped thousands of exhausted humans resolve their fatigue and achieve more in their lives
Here is Dr. Hirsch’s book Fix Your Fatigue
Here’s an interview about one of those infections, Lyme disease
Here’s the Jack Canfield book The Success Principles we talked about
Follow Dr. Hirsch on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Youtube
Visit raisinghealthyfamilies.com/teens to get on the waitlist for Teens Cook Real Food!
Get four free life skills workshops now at raisinghealthyfamilies.com/skills
Kitchen Stewardship
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Have you ever blown up at your kid because they’re melting down?
Just wanted their bad behavior to STOP because you feel like a bad parent if it doesn’t?
Committed that you would parent differently than your parents, but see some cycles repeating you don’t like?
My guest today is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has seen a lot of hurting and struggling families in her decade-plus working with clients, and she brings some of the best scripts I’ve ever heard to this interview today.
Get answers for issues like:
Your teen says everyone else gets to do X and it’s not fair that she doesn’t!
Your preschooler throws an epic 45-minute tantrum
You try to put the child in time-out but it only makes things worse
Your child’s behavior triggers anger or resentment
Feeling like you have to choose between being a warm, connected parent and giving your kids chores and boundaries
Plus Bryanna tells us the two most important things we can say to our teens - and they’re good ones.
I know many parents are going to have a mindset shift after this one, and I can’t wait to hear what you think!
Visit raisinghealthyfamilies.com/teens to get on the waitlist for Teens Cook Real Food!
Get four free life skills workshops now at raisinghealthyfamilies.com/skills
Kitchen Stewardship
Raising Healthy Families
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YouTube shorts channel for HPH
Find the Healthy Parenting Handbook at raisinghealthyfamilies.com/podcast
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When your podcast guest says, “Our goal as parents is to raise up these self-sufficient, independent people someday,” you know she’s in the right place!
Diane Boden and I talk all about her journey to minimalism and the intentional mindset she’s fostered over the last 14 years.
It’s not just about the “stuff” but about experiences, relationships, schedules, and even goals.
We dig into all that and more in this encouraging interview!
Resources We Mention for Living with Intention
Diane’s book, Minimalist Moms: Living and Parenting with Simplicity, is available on Amazon, Bookshop.org, or wherever you find your books. 
The Bullet Journal System
My stewardship philosophy 
Building mom friendships and overcoming isolation with Heather MacFadyen
Visit Diane at her website Minimalist Moms Podcast or on social media: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, X
Visit raisinghealthyfamilies.com/teens to get on the waitlist for Teens Cook Real Food!
Get four free life skills workshops now at raisinghealthyfamilies.com/skills
Kitchen Stewardship
Raising Healthy Families
follow Katie on Instagram or Facebook
Subscribe to the newsletter to get weekly updates
YouTube shorts channel for HPH
Find the Healthy Parenting Handbook at raisinghealthyfamilies.com/podcast
Affiliate links used here. Thanks for supporting the Healthy Parenting Handbook!