186: Why Teaching Your Kids Chores and Life Skills is NOT Taking Advantage of Them

186: Why Teaching Your Kids Chores and Life Skills is NOT Taking Advantage of Them

In today's live Healthy Parenting Connector show, I'm going to take 5 different arguments *against* kids doing chores and learning life skills and cou...

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182: Helping Tweens and Teens Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology

182: Helping Tweens and Teens Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology

Get all the links we mentioned to Andrea's resources here: https://kidscookrealfood.com/technology-for-teens/ Andrea Davis of Better Screen Time is b...

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181: The Science of Friendship (and Why That Matters to Our Health) with Dr. Marisa G. Franco

181: The Science of Friendship (and Why That Matters to Our Health) with Dr. Marisa G. Franco

Will you be my friend? Its easy for the 4-year-old in the sandbox to approach another kid and make a friend, but as adults, making new friends AND fi...

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How Brain Science Can Help us Raise More Balanced Kids with Deborah McNelis HPC: E166

How Brain Science Can Help us Raise More Balanced Kids with Deborah McNelis HPC: E166

Understanding is power, and when we understand the way our brains (and our kids' brains!) work, we have the power to improve behavior, help our kids f...

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How Mindset Builds Motivation & Confidence in the Kitchen HPC: E173

How Mindset Builds Motivation & Confidence in the Kitchen HPC: E173

"How do I get my kids to WANT to cook?" parents often ask. Here's your answer! (And pro tip: it starts with US and our own wants...) Learn more abou...

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Why Are You So Tired? (Chronic Fatigue and Long Haulers with Dr. Evan Hirsch) HPC: E172

Why Are You So Tired? (Chronic Fatigue and Long Haulers with Dr. Evan Hirsch) HPC: E172

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 year...

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Your Body Might be Holding Childhood Trauma - What that Looks Like and How to Release It HPC: E169

Your Body Might be Holding Childhood Trauma - What that Looks Like and How to Release It HPC: E169

Get all the links we mentioned here: https://kidscookrealfood.com/childhood-trauma/ My husband and I have been talking a lot lately about the ACES s...

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Could Mold be a Root Cause of...ADHD? Picky Eating? Your Mystery Illness? with Beth O

Could Mold be a Root Cause of...ADHD? Picky Eating? Your Mystery Illness? with Beth O'Hara HPC: E166

Get links to everything we talked to here: https://kidscookrealfood.com/toxic-mold/ Beth's story literally gave me goosebumps over and over. Can you ...

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Healthy Snacks, Sweets, and Schedules (for toddlers, preschoolers, and other humans) HPC: E165

Healthy Snacks, Sweets, and Schedules (for toddlers, preschoolers, and other humans) HPC: E165

Get all the links we mentioned here: https://kidscookrealfood.com/healthy-snacks-and-sweets/ Snacks...sweets...treat...more snacks... Sometimes it f...

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How to Predict your Child

How to Predict your Child's Future Health (even without testing) with Dr. Brian Stenzler HPC: E163

Get all the links we mentioned here: https://kidscookrealfood.com/predict-your-childs-future-health/ What if you could have an idea of your child's f...

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