204: Cultivating Capable Kids: Empowering the Next Generation with Essential Life Skills
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Tune in as Katie Kimball and I discuss why we prioritize teaching our kids life skills and how kids benefit from learning them! Get a FREE ticket for you and your child to learn from me and 60 other experts in Katie's Summer Camp Virtual Summit for Kids, June 12th - 17th. Get your FREE ticket here:
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Life Skills Summer Camp will help prepare your kids with things like:
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Auto maintenance
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Sewing on a button
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Writing a thank-you note
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Growing a garden
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Cleaning their room
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Project planning and study skills
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Finances - saving, estimating to stick to a budget, building credit (yikes!)
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Positive communication
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Regulating the nervous system
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Cooking, organizing, and screen wellness
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And even…cleaning the bathroom!?!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the maximized minimalist podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to rewrite the script, |
| 0:15.4 | congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take back your |
| 0:20.7 | motherhood and achieve a simpler, |
| 0:23.1 | more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. What's up, listeners? |
| 0:30.3 | I am so stoked to welcome back Katie Kimball to the Maximized Minimalist show. What's up, Katie? |
| 0:37.3 | Thanks for being here today. |
| 0:39.1 | It's always a pleasure. I love hanging out with my fellow Katie. |
| 0:42.7 | Yeah, I was going to say we got the Katie's back, which means, you know, we're bound for a good time, right? |
| 0:49.0 | So you are globally known at this point for your work with kids, specifically in the cooking realm. |
| 0:56.2 | That's how I first discovered you through the Kids Cook Real Food online course, which I'm |
| 1:01.1 | pretty sure the Wall Street Journal has done an article about that and recommends it as like one of |
| 1:05.6 | the top cooking courses. So I was like, all right, this woman knows her stuff. She is legit. |
| 1:09.9 | And I tell you what, it has really |
| 1:12.3 | shifted the way my kids partake in this life skill that is cooking and baking. So first of all, |
| 1:18.1 | I owe you a thank you for creating that course to begin. But I wanted to welcome you back to |
| 1:23.0 | the show today and have you back on to kind of further the discussion around life skills and teaching our kids |
| 1:29.1 | these things, whether it's cooking or cleaning or obviously decluttering or anything because |
| 1:34.3 | you've created such a brilliant program, the Life Skills Summer Camp that we'll talk about too. |
| 1:39.6 | Maybe let's go back to the cooking aspect because I'm assuming that's where it started. |
| 1:43.2 | Why was it important for you as a mom with four kids, right? Four kids. Four kids to teach your kids to cook when |
| 1:50.8 | a lot of moms just think or caregivers think, well, I'll just do it. I'll just do it. I said that all |
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