Big Kids

Discover how to help big kids that are 6 through 12 years old with picky eating, sensory processing (and sensory activities), and other areas of development

Sensory Issues With Clothing: How to Help Your Child Get Dressed

Clothing sensory issues can be exhausting! Learn why kids may have a sensory sensitivity, how to help your kid who refuses to wear clothes, get ideas for sensory friendly clothing. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. I’m standing in the kitchen trying to enjoy the hot coffee that just spit out of my Keurig and I wince when I hear my son, crying in the distance. As a pediatric occupational therapist I know it’s because of sensory issues with...

5 Reasons Kids Refuse to Eat

Feel like you’re banging your head against the wall trying to figure out why your child won’t eat anything or refuses to eat at all? There are real reasons and ways you can help picky eater kids. Learn how from a feeding expert and mom. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. As an occupational therapist, parents ask me all the time “Why does my child refuse to eat anything?” It’s frustrating...

Everything Oral Sensory Processing: Activities and Input Ideas

Learn everything you need to know about oral sensory processing: oral sensory seeking activities, sensory diet ideas, calming benefits for picky eaters, sensory seekers and sensory sensitivities! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Thank you to our sponsor, Chewigem USA. Chewigem USA provides a wide assortment of quality and safe chewy jewelry, which is perfect for oral sensory processing. So many kids with oral needs benefit from quick...

How to Get Your Kid to Eat Meat

Wondering how to get your kid to eat meat, if they are getting enough protein, or which meats your child will like best? Learn tricks for kids who don’t like meat. Meat is a mealtime staple that adds protein, nutrients, and a variety of flavor and texture to your child’s diet. It can “beef up” a menu rotation by increasing the ways to diversify simple dishes for your family. But many kids find meat difficult to eat, unappealing, or will outright refuse to...

Picky Eater Tips for Older Kids

Finally, some tips that can help older picky eaters who didn’t grow out of picky eating, for ages 6-12 year olds, teens, and even picky adults to try new foods. “What about my child that’s older, will these picky eating strategies work?” It’s a question I’ve been asked many times. And, the truth is, many of the articles you find here on Your Kid’s Table do work for older kids. My complete picky eating program, Mealtime...

45 Essential Vestibular Activities and Input Ideas

Discover over 45 vestibular activities that can calm, regulate, and improve attention in your child. Plus, get vestibular exercises for kids that seek or avoid vestibular input. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Vestibular input is incredibly powerful and can have amazing or surprising effects. Vestibular processing is nearly always at work in everything we do, arguably more than any other sensory system. Vestibular activities, when used...

Three Things I Wish My Parents Had Known, From an Autistic Adult

An Autistic adult, that was once an autistic girl, offers 3 things she wishes her parents knew on how to support kids with sensory issues as they grow and change. As occupational therapists, at Your Kid’s Table we know that development happens across the lifespan, and that sensory kids grow into sensory adults. And, that sensory processing affects ALL people in different ways, from infancy to adulthood. People with Autism are more likely to show sensory...

10 Spatial Awareness Activities that Improve Development

Learn 10 easy spatial awareness activities that improve this important skill that can affect handwriting, hand eye coordination, clumsiness, and more… Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. From infancy, babies start learning and building skills that will grow through childhood and take them into adolescence and then adulthood. Many of these developmental milestones, from first steps, first bike rides without training...

Healthy Kid-Friendly Meals For Picky Eaters

25+ healthy meals for picky eaters that are easy and kid friendly. Free PDF printable with meal ideas! We’ve all done it. You’re scrolling on social media with hopeful excitement and see a super healthy meal that any picky eater will supposedly eat. You decide it looks promising and are going to try it. You quickly realize that this is anything but simple. There are ingredients you need to buy, and time you need to set aside to set up and...

Ultimate List of Sensory Bin Ideas, Incredibly Easy!

40 plus easy sensory bin ideas that are perfect for home or school. And, get tips to encourage play and benefits of sensory bins. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Lots of sensory bin/box ideas are floating around in the blogosphere and pop up on Pinterest from time to time. As an occupational therapist, this is one play idea that I use very often, as most OT’s do, and I am kind of obsessed with them because of...

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