Babies

This is the spot to find all our strategies and foods for babies, specifically 0-12 month olds. Get started by checking out the baby won't take a bottle guide and how to transition baby to table foods.

Top 10 Guides for Babies

What To Do When Baby Won't Eat Solids

8, 9, & 10 Month Old Feeding Schedule

Transitioning Baby To Table Foods

Unknown Details About Sensory Issues In Babies

Teach Baby To Drink From A Straw

Starting Solid Foods

Starting solid foods with your baby can be an exciting and nerve racking time. Here you’ll find the best practices for how to spoon feed, when to introduce baby food, and how to transition to table foods. Looking for food ideas? Grab our Mega List of Foods for Babies and Toddlers below!

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Top 5 Guides for Starting Solids

Learn how to teach your baby to chew with these 5 surprising tips! I'm also talking about chewing problems in toddlers... #teachbabytochew #teachbabytochewfood #teachtochew #babychewfood

Introducing Baby Food

Get a printable 6 month old feeding schedule with helpful tips to use and adjust for your baby through the end of their 7th month. And, grab some bonus feeding tips that will help you safely and confidently feed your baby!

6-7 Month Old Feeding Schedule

Learn when babies start eating table foods and how to transition them to eating table and finger foods. With this plan from an occupational therapist, you'll feel confident you're doing it safely!

How To Transition to Table Foods

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.

What To Do When Baby Won't Eat

Learn how to spoon feed baby even if you're using baby led weaning, and how to troubleshoot baby gagging, throwing food on the floor, and more!

How To Spoon Feed Your Baby

Child Development Skills

If you want to support and encourage kids' overall developmental skills, you’re in the right place. You’ll find incredible guides here on core strength, fine motor skills, executive functioning skills, and lots more. Check it all out below!

Top 5 Developmental Skill Guides

Learn 10 easy spatial awareness activities that improve this important skill that can affect handwriting, hand eye coordination, clumsiness, and more...

10 Spatial Awareness Activities

Whether your child has a fine motor delay or not, these three tricks are perfect for improving fine motor skills in your child. They don't require any special set up, just some small adjustments to the activities they're already participating in. #finemotorskills #improvingfinemotorskills

3 Quick Tricks for Improving Fine Motor Skills

Core exercises help kids gain strength for fine motor activities. Core strength starts to develop in babies! The strength and stability continues to develop as a child grows through toddler, preschool, and school-age years.

Core Strength Exercises

Executive Functioning Skills

Your kids will love these gross motor skill activities, for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten or school aged. Plus, benefits of gross motor activities. Tons of ideas to try for large motor!

Gross Motor Activities

School Age Kids

From preschoolers to kindergartners all the way up through the elementary school aged years, this is the place to get all the strategies targeted towards school age kids! Check out our free meal plan for kids and how to help kids fall asleep!

Top 10 Guides for School Age Kids

10 Sensory Red Flags You Might Be Missing

Foods For Picky Eaters

What Helps Constipation In Kids

Signs Of Anxiety In Kids

How To Help A Kid Fall Asleep

Proprioceptive Activities

Meal Plan For Kids

Sensory Issues With Clothing

Child Cries All The Time

Sensory Toys

Nutrition

Learn more about kids nutrition, especially as it pertains to picky eaters! Find tasty recipes, portion size recommendations, and even how to teach kids about nutrition.

Top 5 Nutrition for Kids Guides

What is feeding therapy? Does your child or toddler need therapy, and if so, how do you get a feeding evaluation for them? Get answers from a feeding specialist!

Toddler & Preschooler Portion Sizes

High Fiber Foods for Kids

Learn about natural laxatives for kids constipation to give them quick relief, without the use of Miralax as a stool softner.

Helping Constipation in Kids

Worried about your child's weight? Try this easy and healthy high calorie weight gain smoothie recipe that's specifically designed in kids. No fake ingredients, and tips to get picky eaters gobbling it up! #weightgainsmoothiesforkids #smoothiesforkids #smoothiesforkids #smoothieshealthy #smoothiesfortoddlers

Weight Gain Smoothie for Kids

Meal Plan for Kids

Get Food Ideas Specifically For Picky Eaters!

We know why kids won’t eat, how to turn around picky eating, and what foods to give picky eaters! Get our top 9 tips and 25 Picky Eater Meal Ideas in a free printable by clicking below.

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Top 10 Guides for Picky Eaters

5 Reasons Kids Won't Eat

Turning My Picky Eater Around

Foods For Picky Eaters

My Child Won't Eat Anything But Junk Food

Sensory Processing & Picky Eating

How To Help Your Child Out Of Picky Eating Without Nagging

Kid Only Eats 1 Color Of Food

Feeding Therapy

Kid Won't Eat Breakfast

Lunch Ideas For Picky Eaters

Recipes

With every one of our picky eater and family friendly recipes, you’ll find simple strategies for helping kids learn to explore and enjoy them. Check out some of our faves like potato skins, crispy green beans, or our mega list of vegetable recipes!

Top 10 Recipes

Chicken Nuggets For Picky Eaters

Fish Cakes

Mild Taco Seasoning

High Fiber, Immune Boosting Banana Pumpkin Bread

Homemade Hot Pockets

Gluten-Free Meatballs

Chicken Skewers

Kale Chips

Crispy Whole Roasted Cauliflower

Sensory Issues

This is the place for ALL things sensory: sensory processing, sensory diet, sensory activities, sensory toys, and more, because as OT’s, sensory is our thing! Get started by grabbing our printable list of 21 sensory red flags you might be missing.

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Top 10 Sensory Guides

10 Sensory Red Flags

Sensory Diet Template

Proprioceptive Activities

Clothing Sensitivities

21 Sensory Red Flags Printable

Sensory Bin Ideas

Sensory Strategies For Wild Kids

Vestibular Activities

Sensory Toys

Sensory Integration

Sensory Diets

A sensory diet is all about meeting your child’s sensory needs to calm, regulate, and improve focus through specific sensory diet activities. Grab our free sensory diet template and list of sensory diet activities below!

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Top 10 Sensory Diet Guides

Sensory Diet Template

Sensory Diet Activities

Sensory Diet Cards

Sensory Sensitivities

Sensory Strategies For Wild Kids

Low Registration

Oral Sensory Activities

Heavy Work Activities

Child Won't Brush Teeth

Method For Kids Who Hate Hair Washing

Sensory Toys

Sensory toys can be amazing for encouraging any child’s development, but it's especially helpful for regulating kids with sensory issues. Figure out which sensory toys, like fidgets or a sensory swing are best for your child below.

Top 10 Sensory Toy Guides

Sensory Toys For Kids

Affordable & Cheap Sensory Toys

Fidget Toys

Sensory Swings

Wobble Cushions

Weighted Blanket

Weighted Lap Pad

Sensory Bins

Body Socks

7 Activities Using A Yoga Ball

How to Teach Your Baby or Toddler to Eat Table Foods

As OT’s, we’ve worked with A LOT of babies and toddlers that won’t eat solids. Eating is a skill just like talking or walking, and some babies need more help. Snag our Learn to Eat Table Foods printable to get started!

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Top 5 Guides to Help Babies That Won't Eat

Baby Won't Eat Solids

Is your baby or toddler gagging on foods all of a sudden? Does your toddler chew food and spit it out? Or, your baby won't put food in their mouth? Find out what's normal and what's not from a pediatric occupational therapist.

Baby Feeding Red Flags

Transitioning Baby to Table Foods

Teach Baby to Chew

Learn how to help your child or toddler with picky eating. Get practical tips and strategies you can start today for the picky eater in your life! #parenting #toddler #pickyeating #pickyeater #yourkidstable #kids

Baby Gagging

Baby & Toddler Feeding Milestones

In the first few years of life, babies and toddlers go through a lot of different feeding milestones, from learning to chew to drinking from a straw. Here at Your Kid’s Table, you’ll find detailed guides for each of the feeding milestones. Check them out below!

Top 10 Feeding Milestone Guides

Ultimate Guide To Feeding Milestones

How To Drink From A Straw

How To Transition To Table Foods

When Can Babies Eat Puffs Or Cheerios?

How To Teach Your Baby To Feed Themselves

How To Wean From The Breast

How To Wean From The Bottle

How To Teach Your Baby To Chew

How To Lose The Pacifier

Why Your Baby Should Be Putting Toys In Their Mouth

Feeding Therapy

Here you will find all sorts of resources about feeding therapy, including feeding therapy strategies like food chaining. To get a printable of 20+ feeding therapy ideas and oral motor exercises, click below!

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Top 5 Feeding Therapy Guides

Everything To Know About Feeding Therapy

Pocketing Food

Food Chaining

Get inspired with the list of feeding goals for picky eaters that's perfect for OT's and speech therapist's that are providing pediatric feeding therapy!

Feeding Therapy Goals

Learn exactly what this new diagnosis of Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) means for picky eater kids, how it differs from ARFID, and how to help kids overcome PFD with ways that align that with positive parenting. #PediatricFeedingDisorder #pickyeating

What Is Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD)?

Occupational Therapy

Our team is all occupational therapists, so here you will find incredible resources for and about pediatric occupational therapy. Some of our top picks to check out are spatial awareness activities, primitive reflex testing, and sensory integration!

Top 10 Occupational Therapy Guides

Sensory Diet Template

Retained Primitive Reflexes

Everything To Know About Feeding Therapy

OT For Autism: Is It Necessary?

Sensory Integration

10 Spatial Awareness Activities

20 Signs Preschooler Needs OT

Feeding Therapy Goals

10 Winter Occupational Therapy Activities

Food Chaining

Teens

We have eating and sensory strategies for teens too, and you can find them all here. Let us know if there’s a topic you’d like to see covered for teens!

Top 5 Guides For Teens

"Help, my teenager refuses to eat what I cook!" While it can be frustrating to still have a picky eater when your child is a tween or teen, there's a lot you can do to help them eat new foods. Learn how with these 5 powerful tips... #pickyeatingteens #pickyteenageeater #pickyeating #pickyeaterteenager

How To Help Teenage Picky Eaters Eat New Foods

Sensory clothing sensitivities can make getting dressed stressful for kids and adults. Find sensory friendly clothing for all types of tactile sensitivities, for kids and adults!

Sensory Friendly Clothing For Kids & Adults

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.

Picky Eater Tips For Older Kids

Kids can easily fly under the radar with all sorts of hidden struggles they face in the classroom. Learn 7 often unseen ways your child might struggle in the classroom and how you can help them work through it! #sensorystruggles #sensoryclassroom #sensoryclassroomideas #sensoryclassroomideascalmdown

7 Unseen Struggles In The Classroom

22 Natural Laxatives For Relief

Toddlers

We have toddler sensory activities, toddler recipes, toddler picky eating tips, and more toddler strategies all in this spot to help you encourage and support your toddlers development! Get our best meal ideas and a huge printable food list for toddlers below!

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Top 10 Guides For Toddlers

Toddler Feeding Schedule

Toddler Throwing Food

21 Toddler Sensory Activities

How Much Milk Should A Toddler Drink?

8 Things To Do When A Toddler Refuses To Eat

Essential 1-Stop Guide For Toddler Meal Ideas

5 Tricks For A Toddler Who Won't Eat Dinner

Greatest Toddler Breakfast Ideas

5 Ways To Stop Mealtime Toddler Tantrums

How To Identify Sensory Issues In Toddlers

Strategies

Get the help you need with our library of strategies to help kids progress in their development or overcome a challenge. Check out our specialties: sensory, picky eating, and babies learning to eat.

Top 10 Strategy Guides

10 Sensory Red Flags

5 Reasons Kids Won't Eat

Baby Won't Eat Solids

Helping Constipation In Kids

Toddler Feeding Schedule

My Child Cries All The Time!

Oral Motor Exercises

How To Handle A Hyperactive Child

Pocketing Food

After School Routine

Developmental Skills

Get detailed guides about various developmental skills for toddlers, preschoolers, and school aged kids. Developmental skills include fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills, executive functioning, and more. Basically, developmental skills are any skills or milestones that kids need to reach their full development and learn!

Move and Groove Sensory Summer Camp: Our First ever In-Person Experience!

Recap of our first in-person sensory summer camp for kids in Pittsburgh, PA! Learn about the goals and key activities of our sensory summer camp, and hear about all the fun we had and the progress that was made! 20 years ago, part of my first OT job was working at a summer camp run solely by OTs and PTs. It was incredible. This was in the DC area and I knew nothing like that existed in my hometown of Pittsburgh. I’ve literally dreamt about this...

23 Critical Executive Functioning Skills by Age

Learn key executive functioning skills by age, and engaging executive functioning activities to boost development for toddlers, kids, and teens! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Tommy had a friend from school over for the very first time. His first real playdate. His mom set him and his friend up with some snacks and a game of Uno. It’s a game he’s played quite a few times during family game nights with his parents and older...

How to Break the Toe Walking Habit in Your Child

What causes sensory toe walking in children and how do you address it? Learn about toe walking sensory strategies, how it relates to sensory processing disorder, and when to be concerned. In one of our most popular articles of all time, 10 Sensory Red Flags You Might Be Missing, I briefly talk about a sensory red flag that I frequently see as an occupational therapist: a child walking on their toes. Toe walking sensory behavior is something that...

23 Visual Sensory Activity Ideas for Kids

20 fun and creative visual sensory activities your child will love, plus why visual sensory processing is important, and how to help with visual sensory difficulties in kids. This post contains affiliate links. See our full disclosure. Close your eyes and think of your most vivid memory… is it a beautiful tropical vacation you went on? The birth or first steps of your child? The ability to recall these images so readily is because of your visual...

33 Easy Gross Motor Activities for Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Kids!

Your kids will love these gross motor skill activities, for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten or school aged. Plus, benefits of gross motor activities. Tons of ideas to try for large motor! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Take even a short look at the kinds of things the average kid is into, and you will quickly see how important physical movement and physical activities are for development. Playgrounds, climbing, running,...

40+ Easy Sensory Obstacle Course Ideas for Kids

Obstacle course ideas for all ages, indoors or outdoors with little to no prep. Plus learn obstacle course benefits and get a list of activities to make your own! Climbing, crashing, swinging, crawling… There’s a reason most kids love movements like these from a young age and will actively seek them out. You can combine all these activities by setting up an easy, low prep obstacle course! As an occupational therapist and mom it is one of...

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...

11 Fun Ways to Improve Your Kid’s Printing Skills

How to support your school aged child to help them print easier, neater, faster and with less frustrations and freak-outs! When it takes an hour for your child to write one or two sentences, and you’ve used all your energy encouraging, and even bribing , and they still refuse to write! When your child has written a sentence and it is so messy and the letters are all over and completely disorganized it can be frustrating and discouraging. You and your child...

7 Best Pencil Grips for Kids Handwriting

Help kid’s pencil grasp and handwriting with the 7 best pencil grips that are perfect for school and home. Learn which pencil grip is the best one for your kid! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. When I started working with kids as an occupational therapist around 2004, pencil grips weren’t being used as often as they were needed. They were hard to come by, having to order them out of specialty therapy...

20 Signs a Preschooler Needs Occupational Therapy (+ FREE Screening Checklist)

Occupational therapists can help preschoolers with 7 different areas of development. Find out the 20 signs that your child might need OT in the preschool years… How are things going at preschool? Do you have a 3, 4 or 5 year-old at home? Do you know if your child is ready for kindergarten? The preschool years are an especially exciting time for your child to develop many new and wonderful abilities. The years between toddler...

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