In this special guest series episode, I am thrilled to welcome Katie Kimball, a renowned advocate for healthy kids cooking and founder of the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse.Katie is on a powerful mission to bring families together through healthy food, aiming to teach every child the essential skill of cooking and instilling lifelong healthy habits.Join us in this enlightening conversation with Katie as we delve into the sometimes challenging, always rewarding intersection of kids and food, exploring how we can foster a positive and healthy relationship between our children and the meals they eat.Jennifer's Takeaways:Raising Highly Sensitive Children + Their Food Preferences (01:21)Managing Picky Eaters (05:12)Family Dinners, Meal Planning + Engaging Kids in the Kitchen (11:05)Parenting Strategies For Healthy Eating Habits (15:54)Developing Healthy Eating Habits (20:51)Strategies To Improve Picky Eater Palates (26:30)Childhood Food Exposure + Sensitivity (31:23)About Katie KimballKatie Kimball, the national voice of healthy kids cooking, is a former teacher, two-time TEDx speaker, writer, and mom of 4 kids who founded 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 help families instill those all-important life skills!Connect with Katie KimballWebsite: https://kidscookrealfood.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katiekimballkidscook/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kidscookrealfood/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kitchenstewFREEBIE: https://kidscookrealfood.com/connectedparentingpodcastMeet Jennifer KolariJennifer Kolari is the host of the “Connected Parenting” weekly podcast and the co-host of “The Mental Health Comedy” podcast. Kolari is a frequent guest on Nationwide morning shows and podcasts in th US and Canada. Her advice can also be found in many Canadian and US magazines such as; Today’s Parent, Parents Magazine and Canadian Family.Kolari’s powerful parenting model is based on the neurobiology of love, teaching parents how to use compassion and empathy as powerful medicine to transform challenging behavior and build children’s emotional resilience and emotional shock absorbers.Jennifer’s wisdom, quick wit and down to earth style help parents navigate modern-day parenting problems, offering real-life examples as well as practical and effective tools and strategies.Her highly entertaining, inspiring workshops are shared with warmth and humour, making her a crowd-pleasing speaker with schools, medical professionals, corporations and agencies throughout North America, Europe and Asia.One of the nation’s leading parenting experts, Jennifer Kolari, is a highly sought- after international speaker and the founder of Connected Parenting. A child and family therapist with a busy practice based in San Diego and Toronto, Kolari is also the author of Connected Parenting: How to Raise A Great Kid (Penguin Group USA and Penguin Canada, 2009) and You’re Ruining My Life! (But Not Really): Surviving the Teenage Years with Connected Parenting (Penguin Canada, 2011).