☀️ Year five of #LifeSkillsNow Summer Camp from our friend Katie at Raising Healthy Families!
FREE Virtual Summer Camp coming your way.
The Camp That Teaches What Schools Stopped Teaching
At One Potato, we look forward to a handful of events every year, and the #LifeSkillsNow registration kickoff is one of them. We’ve recommended Katie Kimball (read our interview with Katie here!) and Kids Cook Real Food for years, and the summer camp she and her team build under the Raising Healthy Families umbrella keeps getting better — bigger, broader, and more aligned with what our readers tell us they actually need at home.
Season 5 opens for camp week on June 8, with registration free and open right now. If you’ve never done it, the short version is: 100+ short video workshops taught by over 70 experts, organized into tracks like Finance, Cooking, Gardening, Hands-On, Tech Savvy, Health & Wellness, Etiquette, Leadership, and Neurodivergent Families. Every workshop ends with an off-screen “mission” — a small, real-world challenge that turns the lesson into something the kid actually does.
Why We Love #LifeSkillsNow — and Why Season 5 Might Be the Best One Yet
Katie started Kids Cook Real Food because she watched her own kids gain confidence at the cutting board and noticed how that confidence quietly leaked into everything else — homework, chores, conversations with adults. Parents in her courses kept asking for more: what about money? What about laundry? What about helping their kids handle hard conversations? #LifeSkillsNow grew out of those questions, and five years in, more than 85,000 families have come through the doors.
Season 5 is built around the gaps schools keep widening. There’s a full Finance track that walks kids through compound interest, credit, the real cost of driving, and the math behind a first home. A new Leadership track includes how to build a personal “life map” and a be-brave workshop. The Neurodivergent Families track our readers ask about every year is back, with sessions on executive function, sensory smarts, anxiety, and getting unstuck. There’s a brand-new gardening series — vegetable and flower — that runs across multiple workshops.
For parents who hesitate at the words “virtual camp” (we get it — we do, too), the off-screen design is the whole point. After each workshop, kids close the screen and complete a hands-on mission. A workshop on gardening sends them outside to plant something. A workshop on car care sends them to the driveway to check the oil. A workshop on writing letters has them mailing one to a grandparent. The screen exists to teach the skill, then the family closes it and goes to use it.
Keep it specific to One Potato and kids in the kitchen: The Cooking for Everyone track has homemade Japanese onigiri, allergy-friendly blueberry oat cake, and Veggie-Loaded Double Chocolate Muffins from Levi Jensen and his daughter (who steals every scene). The Teens Cook track has burgers and fries with whole wheat buns made from scratch.
The full camp is free for the week of June 8, and registering now opens up 15 early-access workshops you can start this weekend. If you find that your family loves the format, the team also offers year-round #LifeSkillsNow mini-series packages — themed bundles of the most-requested workshops, available for a one-time cost with no subscription. Whether your kids walk away knowing how to balance a checkbook, plant a tomato, write a thank-you note, or unclog a drain, they’ll have skills that schools don’t usually have time for and YouTube doesn’t usually frame this well.
👉 Get Your Free #LifeSkillsNow Season 5 Pass
Here’s to a summer of small skills that add up — one tourniquet, one tomato plant, one tied tie at a time.
You can learn more about Katie and Raising Healthy Families on the website, and follow her over on Instagram @raisinghealthyfamilies
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