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  📍 Greetings and welcome to Raising Resilient Minds. I'm your host, Dr. Jihan, and I'm thrilled today to have a great friend here who I've had the privilege of working with. On a projects that she has founded, called Kids Cook Real Food, and, called Kids Cook Real Food, and she has lots of different things that she does with it, including a summer camp that is very beneficial for my patients as well as those that we often advertise to.
Katie Kimball helps change kids' relationships 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 four kids. She created the kids Cook Real Food eCourse, which was recommended by the Wall Street Journal as the best online cooking class for her kids.
Her big 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. So without further ado, welcome Katie.
Thank you, Dr. Gihan. I love being here with you.
Thank you. So, so I wanted to, hearing, raising Resilient Minds podcast, one of the things that, we are wanting parents to really understand is that the more that you pour into our children, the more that they actually become resilient, are able to be really great, capable adults. Right? And so I know that.
You do this through your online courses, summer camps, all the different, the work that you have, dedicated your life to, but I'm curious, when you think of the word resilient, what comes to mind?
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To bounce back from problems more quickly and more fully. I, when I want my kids to be so resilient, and a little thing can go wrong, plans change. A child is expecting to do something fun and then they can't, or you remind them that they have some chores to do and they have forgotten about that.
So it's the first time that they're hearing again that they have chores, and toddlers get to meltdown. But they are resilient because like two minutes later they can be your best friend again.
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And so I don't necessarily think resilience is never like having a meltdown or never having a big reaction, but it's the ability to come back from it that half an hour later or even five or 10 minutes later, you're not still stuck and you don't let the negative experience prevent you from experiencing life in the future.
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I don't, I want my kids. Especially, I want my kids. I want your kids. I want all the kids to be able to go through something that's difficult and look at that as that made me stronger. Like it might have been horrible, but it made me stronger. I got through it and I'm not gonna shy away from that.
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I love that, that description of it and all the guests I ask and everyone's different. And I love that because it's not just something that is one size fits all. And so that helps me just segue right into that is part of your work, right? You have picky eaters. We'll start with the picky eaters today and helping them overcome this, right?
We may even have tantrums and fights. We're able to bounce back and come back. So tell me a little bit of how you kind of approach some of these families or able to assist them.