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.
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
A weekly podcast for parents raising kids with sensory needs, ADHD, and big emotions. Alisha Grogan, pediatric OT and mom, shares do-able strategies for parents short on time and energy that build regulated, capable, and connected kids.
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!
Fight back against the germs with this delicious and easy super immune booster smoothie recipe that’s perfect for kids too. This is a sponsored post, all opinions are my own. It’s that time of year again… cold and flu season. Boooooo! But, honestly, it seems like its always cold and flu season around my house. Between my three kids someone always seems to be sick and spreading it to someone else, and while I used to have the immune system of a...
Do you ever wonder if your child needs a vitamin, especially if they are a picky eater? It’s a common question and a legitimate concern for sure. To be honest, it’s one I’ve wondered myself. That’s why I turned to the amazing Sarah Remmer, a Pediatric Registered Dietitian and blogger. She has stopped by to answer this ever nagging question and I’m thrilled to have here, because she is truly an expert in childhood nutrition. Sarah is...
This is a sponsored post and contains affiliate links. Lately, there’s a question I’ve been getting a lot: “How can I cook dinner for my family when I work and I’ve just picked up the kids from daycare? We walk in the door, and everyone’s starving.” Even though I don’t have a traditional 9-5 job, and my kids have been mostly watched in our home, I’ve had to help parents with this problem many times in...
If your child has some sensory processing needs, then you have likely at least considered getting them a sensory toy, but the premise of choosing the “right” one for your child can be a daunting task. You may have browsed some catalogs, or noticed some fun things in the OT room, but there are so many options. As an OT, I can tell you that I love many of these toys and tools, and have used them both with the children I’ve helped and my own kids at...
So, I talk a lot about sitting down together to eat family dinners, and I know it isn’t always easy. In fact, it can be really hard. Throw a toddler that barely sits at the table for longer than 3 minutes into the meal, working parents, or a picky eater that only wants to eat mac and cheese every. single. night… And, well, dinner time just got REALLY hard! Time and time again I hear from you in my comments, emails, and in my classes: “How...
With the holiday’s right around the corner, I wanted to share some of my favorite “little” sensory toys that I love as an Occupational Therapist and mom. Everything on this list can be easily tucked into a stocking or given as a gift this holiday season. The best part about sensory stocking stuffers and fillers are that they’re very budget friendly, but that doesn’t mean they can’t pack a big punch. The toys on the...
Wish your kid would eat more veggies? Most parents do! This collection of vegetable recipes for kids will inspire you and get your kid eating! Ugh, vegetables, aren’t they the thorn in most parents side? I know very few parents that are happy with the amount of veggies their kids eat, and the parents of picky eaters are often down right concerned about it. If you’re new here, you may not know that I don’t like to get into forcing, bribing, or...
What is extreme picky eating and how is it different from average picky eating? Learn what red flags to look out for in your child… Doesn’t it seem like everybody has at least one picky eater at home? It is a pretty pervasive problem for parents, but are all picky eaters the same? Surprisingly, no, not at all. See, picky eating is like a spectrum, we all fall somewhere on this spectrum, that has adventurous eating on one end and extremely picky eating...
Last week, I was on Pittsburgh Today Live (that’s my home town) talking about how to pack a school lunch your child will actually eat, but I wanted to include all my tips in a post too, so you can access them quickly anytime. Even some of the best eaters will pass on a packed lunch, which can be so frustrating and worrisome, especially after you’ve made the effort to have a square meal for them. And if your kid is a picky eater, figuring out what to...
The biggest reason picky eating is incredibly stressful for parents is because parents are worried that their child isn’t getting enough nutrition or calories to be healthy and growing well. I have heard the questions hundreds of times: “My son doesn’t eat vegetables, does he need a vitamin?”, “How could they possibly be eating enough to grow?”,or “What if they aren’t getting the nutrients they need?”...
