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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!

A Big Announcement: Sensory E-Course

***Please note that the Sensory Solutions course has been discontinued. If you’re a former student, you have access to all of your materials indefinitely. We now offer the RISE with Sensory program, and you can learn more about it in this free workshop and get some awesome tips to help out your kid with sensory activities. Many of you have found your way to Your Kid’s Table because you are looking for research-based, therapeutic strategies to help your...

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How to Help Picky Eaters Take Medicine

*This is a sponsored post.   It’s that time of year… The weather is changing… Kids are in school… Germs are being shared… Kids are getting sick. While there are certainly measures we can take to prevent these infections, sometimes they are just inevitable. While it isn’t a picnic for any kid (or parent) when they are sick, it can be that much more difficult for the picky eater or problem feeder that needs to take medicine....

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How Much Sleep Does Your Child Need?

Joleen from Baby Sleep 101 is here with us today sharing some wonderful and practical tips to help your baby, toddler, or child get the sleep the need. Plus, she lays out exactly how much sleep your child needs depending on their age. I was so happy when Joleen agreed to guest post here because I often see parents struggling through the consequences of sleep deprivation, and they don’t even know it. When kids don’t have the necessary sleep it affects...

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The Best Position for Your Child During Mealtime

*This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. I am a bit embarrassed that I am now just writing this post after three years of regularly sharing information about kid’s and eating. How and where your child is sitting to eat can have a HUGE impact on the success of a meal! Surprised? Don’t believe me? I know it sounds like a minor factor to consider when feeding your child (or baby), but if your child isn’t positioned correctly they...

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The Ultimate List of Baby/Toddler Meal Ideas

Huge list of toddler and baby meal ideas. Perfect for baby led weaning, transitioning to table foods, or toddlers. Meals the whole family can eat.     Three years ago, I wrote a big list of baby finger food ideas (when my second child was in this stage), and it has remained one of the most popular posts on Your Kid’s Table to date. I know parents are looking for baby/toddler food inspiration! I wanted to take this post a step further and share...

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Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating {Book Review}

I am thrilled to share with you this fantastic new resource for parents of picky eaters. Actually, to be more specific extreme picky eaters or sometimes called problem feeders, either moniker denoting a child that has a limited variety of foods that they eat on a regular basis. Earlier this month Katja Rowell M.D. and Jennie McGlothlin MS, SLP released Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating: A Step-by-Step Guide for Overcoming Selective Eating, Food...

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Ultimate List of Mealtime Must Haves for Baby

Since I have started feeding my third child baby and table foods about 6 weeks ago, I’ve really fine-tuned what I actually need for mealtime. With the added experience of working with lots of families with young children, I have tried lots of products, and well, let’s just say some are better than others. Taking both my clinical motivations and Mommy experience, I thought it would be helpful to share my ultimate list of mealtime must haves for babies...

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Kid Hate Mealtime? These 7 Tips Will Change Everything

End the battles over getting your child to the table and learn how to help your child have a healthy relationship with food. 7 picky eater tips that can be total game changers.       Creating a positive meal-time environment can be challenging for any parent. In many homes, mealtime has inadvertently fallen to the bottom of the priority list and routines and structure around meals just doesn’t happen. When parents try to enforce a routine at...

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Sensory Processing Difficulties in Kids

I am huge proponent of early intervention, the often free service available to children 0-3 living in the U.S. with developmental delays or disabilities. Services are completed in the child’s home and can address a variety of areas of development from feeding to speech to motor skills to sensory processing. I have covered all the details about early intervention in this post, but today Kutest Kids, an early intervention provider in the Philadelphia area is...

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Introducing Baby Food: Everything You Need to Know

The when, what, and how of introducing baby food. Find out the best first foods and what to do at your baby’s first meal to lay the path for healthy eating habits. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience and any purchases made through those links help to support this site. I only share products I use and like.     Preparing for your baby’s first meal is usually a very exciting and nervous time for parents as you think about...

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