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.
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!
I want to start off my saying that I have added a new tab to my navigation bar, Sensory Basics. I wanted to have a stand alone resource that explains the basics of exactly what sensory play means, as well as some other terms that we frequently use in the business of occupational therapy. Check it out by clicking here or under Sensory Basics in the nav bar. Since, I was putting energy into adding a new permanent page, I didn’t have a whole lot of time to get...
It is Memorial Day Weekend and while we pause to remember the brave men and women that have honored our country, we naturally want to eat that which symbolizes Americana. Cornbread, is one of the first things that comes to mind. Of course, I wanted to up the nutritional value, and with fresh blueberries purchased at the farmer’s market, I was inspired! Now that Isaac is nearly 10 months old, I am really starting to move him onto table foods and many of our...
UPDATE: See the new and revised post here that includes all three posts at How to Keep Mealtimes Positive. This is the last installment of the series, Making Meals Positive. As I have stated previously, I strongly believe that positive meal times are an essential part of improving your kid’s food variety and volume. Be sure to check out part 1 and part 2 of this series, if you haven’t already! Ending on a Good Note Let’s imagine that you are...
Update: I now have an entire page dedicated to Sensory Processing/Play. If you are looking for more information about sensory play, click here. The term “sensory” is becoming more mainstream, but I know it is still a foreign concept to many people. So, before I dive into what the sensory tunnel is, let me explain a little about “sensory” play, and I do mean a little, this is a very broad topic that I could devote an entire blog to. Sensory...
Home-made baby food: beets in the OXO baby food storage tray. I hate to go into this long tedious explanation of how to make baby food, but there are quite a few steps involved and I want to make sure you get it just right… Ummm, not really! Of course making your own baby food does take a little more effort, but it is easy and with most foods it’s difficult to mess it up. So many people seem intimidated about making their own...
The kids and I went on a “play date” (I hate that term) today with two other kids that are Sam’s age. The mom’s are good friends of mine and we have been getting together every couple of weeks since Sam was born. One of mom’s happens to be a pediatric speech and language pathologist and the other is a child development specialist. We each rely on each other for expert troubleshooting when it comes to our tots. Getting together...
Recently, I have come across a few different sites that recommend grating your kid’s fruit or veggies. Mostly, this seemed to be a “trick” tactic to get the nutrients in undetected. As you know by now, I am not a fan of “tricking” our kids into eating their fruits and vegetables. I know that may make life harder in the immediate circumstance, but putting the work in now will teach your kids to enjoy the foods they may be avoiding...
So I wasn’t planning on posting anything about tonight’s dinner, but it was such a success I thought it would be helpful to share it. As a result of this impromptu nature, I was only able to grab a last minute picture of the finished product. I hope you will forgive me and chalk it up to me still getting my blogger legs underneath me! I am going to share the recipe for this Paella, which I made up as I went. That means there are no...
Even your picky eater will love this kid-friendly fish recipe! Learn the health benefits of fish for kids and how to make this delicious tilapia recipe. I’m a little bit of a foodie. I love food and trying new things to eat. I guess I should since it’s my job as a pediatric occupational therapist to get kids to eat more! I love fish, but I know many of you don’t feel the same way, so I am presenting you with Tilapia! Tilapia...
UPDATE: See the new and revised post here that includes all three posts at How to Keep Mealtimes Positive. This is the second installment in a four part series I am posting on making meal-time positive. Click here to read Part 1. Hopefully you are on your way to getting your kid to the table with out any tantrums, anxiety, or stress. If you aren’t there yet, keep working on it. In the mean time, let’s start to think about what you can do to keep the...
Get inspired, plan your meals, or just copy the done for you meal ideas with this awesome printable for toddlers and babies!
With printable visual schedule for kids!
