Raising Kids with Life Skills for Successful Independence with Katie Kimball: Ep 218

About this episode

In this episode, Sarah Rosensweet interviews Katie Kimball about teaching kids life skills, particularly cooking, to foster independence and self-sufficiency.

You can listen wherever you get your podcasts or check out the fully edited transcript of our interview at the bottom of this post. In this episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, I speak with Katie Kimball of Raising Healthy Families. We discussed getting kids in the kitchen and getting them to love cooking, raising teenagers and why they are wonderful, managing screens at different ages, and what kind of skills kids need to become independent, well-rounded and self-sufficient once they leave our homes. Make sure to check out Katie’s course Teens Cook Real Food ! **If you’d like an ad-free version of the podcast, consider becoming a supporter on Substack! > > If you already ARE a supporter, the ad-free version is waiting for you in the Substack app or you can enter the private feed URL in the podcast player of your choice. Know someone who might appreciate this episode? Share it with them! We talk about: * [00:00] Introduction to the episode and guest Katie Kimball; overview of topics (cooking, teens, life skills, screens) * [00:01] Katie’s background: former teacher, mom of four, and how her work evolved into teaching kids and teens to cook * [00:04] Why the teen years are…

People in this episode

Host: Sarah Rosensweet

Guest: Katie Kimball

Topics covered

• cooking
• teen development
• life skills
• independence
• parenting

Keywords

• parenting
• cooking skills
• teenagers
• independence
• life skills
• screen management
• healthy families

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Raising Healthy Families

Products: Teens Cook Real Food

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