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.
How to help preschoolers and elementary school aged kids 6 through 12 years old with picky eating, sensory processing (and sensory activities), and other areas of development. Get started with our 15 Handy Lunch Ideas and The Best Fidget Toys for School.
When parents are faced with their own anxiety, it can take over their life. Learn how to prevent children from becoming anxious too with three easy strategies! I don’t have an anxiety diagnosis. But, anxiety has been something I’ve struggled with for most of my life. I didn’t realize how much so until my sons began to experience anxiety at a young age. I don’t think I caused their anxiety, but there’s no denying the fact that...
Want your picky eater to eat meat or chicken? I’ve used this recipe to get my own kids, and many others, eating meat because of a special, but easy, technique. Find out what it is and the best way to serve your picky eater. There are two types of food that most parents of picky eaters want their child to eat more of: meat and vegetables. In this post, I’m going to share with you my own recipe, designed from a feeding therapists perspective to...
Learn what this mother of an extreme picky eater did to help her daughter learn to eat new foods and the surprising trick that made her fast track her progress! I’ve invited a guest onto the blog with me today. Her name is Heather, she’s a mom and has a daughter, Alexandra, with a history of extreme picky eating. When I met Heather last year, Alexandra had just been sent home from school because she was too ill to participate. Not ill from...
Picky eaters can have a big influence on their brothers and sisters at the dinner table. Learn 4 ways to prevent siblings from falling into the same picky eating habits! If you’ve already got one picky eating kid in the family, the last thing you want is 2 or 3 of them. You know how frustrating and exhausting it is feeding a picky eater day in and day out. You also know how your picky eater acts at the table. They will only eat “their...
It might seem strange, but it’s common for picky eaters to eat only white or beige foods and refuse most other colors of food. But, there’s a good reason why and ways to get them eating more colors of the rainbow… It was pretty exciting. A big accomplish actually, when Jade’s daughter ate roasted chicken. Jade was ecstatic, her daughter was an extreme picky eater. That meant she had a very limited amount of foods...
A mega list of easy and healthy foods for picky eaters so that you can mix up those meals that are the same day in and day out, and help them learn to eat new and different foods without a battle. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Foods for Picky Eaters From an Occupational Therapist While no two picky eaters like the same exact types of food, there are some new and healthy foods they tend to accept. And, there are other foods that...
I hear from parents all the time, “Help, my child won’t brush her teeth!” Discover why and get 9 powerful tips to help your child move past the refusals, battles, and tantrums quick. Affiliate links used below. It’s a non-negotiable. It doesn’t matter how much your kid doesn’t like it. They’ve got to do it. Or, they’ll end up with dirty teeth filled with cavities in no time flat. You know that, and so you...
Being stuck at home with your kids for an unknown amount of time can cause lots of anxiety, but these 10 tips and activities can help you keep your sanity during Coronavirus Social Distancing. We are living in an unprecedented time. Never in our modern history have we watched our entire world shut down like a stack of falling dominoes. But, here we lie with no choice but to accept it. The CDC is recommending that we all practice social distancing,...
Learn which essential oils for an anxious child may help them calm and relax. And, 4 easy ways to use essential oils that empower children and teach them how to self calm when their emotions feel bigger they are. My husband had just come home and he plopped a small, brown paper bag on the table saying, “Allison sent this for you.” Allison’s a good friend and the day before she listened intently as I explained the overwhelming...
Does your child need some help with their handwriting, fine motor, and letter recognition skills? These 6 activities that can be used alone or in an obstacle course are perfect for preschool and kindergarten age kids, and are easily adapted for older kids too! Ten years ago, I would’ve been mortified, but in that decade I had 3 kids. I learned a lot about letting go of perfectionism (my former M.O.) and going with the flow. Well,...
