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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!

Top 5 Guides for Starting Solids

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

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!

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

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!

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.

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!

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.

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!

Top 5 Guides to Help Babies That Won't Eat

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!

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!

Top 5 Feeding Therapy Guides

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!

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

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.

Strategies

As OT’s almost everything single thing we share is a strategy to help your child with their sensory issues, picky eating, eating skills, and general developmental skills. Dive into some of our most sought after articles like 5 Reasons Kids Refuse to Eat and 10 Sensory Red Flags to get started!

How to Resolve a Parenting Disagreement So Your Child Gets the Help They Need

Frustrated and feel like you’ll never get your spouse on board with how you want to parent your child or address problems they’re facing? Learn 3 simple ways to end the fighting and finally get on the same page.       At one time or another, most kids face some sort of challenge in their development, and as the child’s parent, you’ve got to make a decision about how you’re going to handle. It comes down to a parenting...

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Why Your Baby Should Be Putting Toys in Their Mouth

It’s critical that babies go through months of exploring toys and teethers with their mouths. Learn why and how, how to help them if they’re not, and what the consequence could be if they don’t learn how.    Is it weird that my baby won’t put toys in their mouth? It’s a question I’ve been asked many times, and as odd it may seem to you, it doesn’t at all seem too odd to me. And, if you’ve noticed, give...

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Does Your Baby or Toddler Keep Spitting Out Their Food? Try This…

Your baby isn’t spitting out food to make you crazy, it’s happening for a reason. Learn why and how to help them learn to keep it in their mouth!     At first it seemed normal, they’re learning to eat after all. The little puff, green bean, or cheese just slipped out of their mouth over and over again. At first, you were patient because they never ate anything before and obviously they were trying. But, as days and weeks went on, and...

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How to Get Kids Eating at Meals Instead of Snacking All Day

Wish your kid ate less snacks and more at meals? Learn how to help them with these 8 steps that will have your kid hopping into their chair and staying out of the crackers in no time!     We all do it, right? As soon as our baby is able to eat those little puffs, we throw them in our purse or the diaper bag. Next thing you know, they’re screaming while you have a cart overflowing with groceries and there are those little life saving puffs, goldfish...

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Ridiculously Do-Able Sensory Integration Activities to Use at Home

Sensory integration activities can have a massive impact on a child’s development. Learn powerful ones that are easy for parents to do at home!   I was so proud of him as he pulled himself up the small wooden ramp on a scooter board, as he crossed his arms one over the next with both of his hands alternating. This activity was difficult for him in so many ways, I knew this as an occupational therapist, but I wondered if his mom knew how powerful the...

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13 Tasty High Fiber Foods That Kids Will Gobble Up

How about some high fiber foods for kids that they’ll actually eat to not only increase their overall nutrition, but also help keep them regular in the bathroom and avoid constipation!     You probably haven’t given fiber for your child much thought unless you’ve been wishing and hoping for them to poop! That’s right, I’m talking about constipation in kids and you aren’t alone, because thousands of kids are...

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Why Bilateral Integration is Critical for Kids and Activities to Improve It

Learn what you, as a parent, need to know about bilateral integration and how it can affect your child’s ability to write, read, and even pay attention in school. And, get over 13 easy bilateral coordination activities for your child.     It’s something most parents never give thought to, but it is a critical part of development. So much is happening when our child plays, climbs, and explores their environment. Skills are being honed and used...

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Easy Ways to Help Your Kid Focus on Homework

Teach your child how to focus on homework with these easy tips, ideas, and strategies so you can stop the nagging and daily battles over getting it done!     You feel guilty, you should be looking forward to seeing your kid after a long day, but you know what’s about to walk through the door with them, and that it will be the same battle that ensues as every other day: homework. And, you get it. Your kid has been learning all day and wants to do...

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Why Hiding Veggies in Your Kid’s Food is a Mistake

What if hidden veggie recipes caused more harm than good for kids eating? Find out what you can do instead to help teach your kid to enjoy vegetables throughout their whole life without making picky eating any worse than it already is.      Long before I had children of my own, I was a young occupational therapist desperately looking to help my swelling caseload of picky eaters. I was an Oprah junkie back then and leaned forward when she announced how...

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How to Soothe Your Child’s Cold Naturally

Give your child or toddler safe relief from that nasty cold with these 5 natural remedies that soothe!     It was a heartbreaking moment, and I felt totally helpless. My two year old was laying in my arms with a cough that sounded like a seal basking in the sun on the beach. Except, he wasn’t enjoying a day in the sun, he was sick with a nasty cold and croup. We had gone to the doctor and there wasn’t much they could do, but I wanted to at...

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