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Help! My Kids Don’t Know How to Do Anything : Building Life Skills This Summer :: Katie Kimball [Ep 525]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Today Katie Kimball is here to show us how to help our kids gain life skills that last and contribute to the family. Katie founded a program called Life Skills Now which covers topics from oil changes, to cooking, to entrepreneurship. She shares that competence equals confidence and with the rise of anxiety and depression, we want to give our kids all of the confidence and skills to succeed in this world. Summer is a perfect time to begin! Here are some topics we cover: 
  • Why parenting can't be put on autopilot- we need to shift and change constantly 
  • A list of 100 practical, emotional, and intellectual skills your kids can learn
  • Breaking chores into doable chunks instead of “just go clean the bathroom”
  • How to create a "Summer Skills List" with your kids that fosters ownership and choice
  • How to teach them skills that are hands-on, minds-on, hearts-on 
  • How critical thinking and open-ended questions shape kids' future decision-making
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.4

I'm your host, Heather McFaddy.

0:11.8

And this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:18.9

And in this episode number 525, I'm welcoming to the show, Katie Kimball.

0:24.8

What do I mean critical thinking? We need, I mean, we need our kids to be thoughtful people

0:30.3

to be asking, what might happen if I do that, you know, future casting. We need them to be asking, why am I doing this thing, right?

0:41.1

Why am I door dashing?

0:42.8

Why am I sitting down?

0:45.0

How am I spending my time?

0:48.3

I think a lot of critical thinking, too, is building the muscle of resilience and adaptability and flexibility.

0:54.0

And the only way that happens is if your life is a little bit excited. is building the muscle of resilience and adaptability and flexibility.

0:59.1

And the only way that happens is if your life is a little bit exciting, if you have some responsibilities, you have some expectations, you've got stuff that you got to do.

1:03.8

Katie is a mom of four.

1:06.1

She's an entrepreneur, a writer, a teacher, a TEDx speaker, and she has been on a real food, natural

1:14.5

living journey since 2005, which led her to write online at kitchen stewardship.com, and then she

1:21.1

started teaching her own kids how to cook and other kids how to cook and created kids cook real food. And today we are talking about life

1:31.8

skills. Why does it matter to teach our kids things from how to change oil to cooking,

1:37.4

to entrepreneurship, to social skills. And it's so great that I get to connect you with her because she has a life skills now camp

1:48.5

that will be entirely free June 9th to June 13th, 2025, if you're listening in the future.

1:56.0

You just click the link that's in the show notes to sign up.

1:59.0

Definitely don't miss out on that because there's

2:00.9

a list of over a hundred practical, emotional, intellectual skills that your kids could learn and

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