Parenting When You're Exhausted, Create Your Family Support Team with Katie Kimball, CSME

In this episode, Evan H. Hirsch, MD, speaks with Katie Kimball, CSME, to explore how exhausted parents can reclaim energy and stability at home by building a true "family team." Together, they unpack how life skills, chores, and food prep can become empowering tools, especially for families navigating chronic fatigue or long COVID.

Katie Kimball helps change kids' relationship to food, both through work in the kitchen and helping parents of picky eaters. She's a former teacher, two-time TEDx speaker, writer, and mom of 4 kids. She created the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse, which was recommended by The Wall Street Journal as the best online cooking class for kids. Her blog Kitchen Stewardship helps families stay healthy without going crazy, and she's on a mission to connect families around healthy food, teach every child to cook, and instill those all-important life skills with her LifeSkillsNow summer camps!

Today, Katie shares simple but powerful strategies for involving kids in cooking and household responsibilities in a way that builds confidence, strengthens family bonds, and takes pressure off parents who are stretched thin.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What a "family support team" looks like and how to create one
• Why life skills build confidence, resilience, and future independence
• How to coach rather than criticize when teaching kids
• The importance of clear boundaries and gradual responsibility
• Why apologizing is a powerful parenting tool
• How to shift parenting style as your kids become teens
• Creative ways to teach responsibility through allowance systems

Katie's Freebie: Knife Skills Video for Kids: https://kidscookrealfood.com/energymdpodcast

Holiday Skills Bundle from LifeSkillsNow: https://sl290.isrefer.com/go/holiday-skills/ehirsch/

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