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.
Learn how to help a child sensitive to noise, whether it’s loud noise or other sounds with these 5 simple steps! How do you help a child that’s sensitive to noise? Noise is all around us, it’s kinda hard to avoid. And, noise sensitivity isn’t one size fits all either. Some kids are only sensitive to loud noises, while others are sensitive to noise in general. I’m sharing a step-by step plan to help you get to the bottom of your...
The best fidgets for kids to help with anxiety, focus, attention, and calming down. Learn why fidgets for kids work, when they don’t, and who they’re for. I was hoping this day would be different, but deep down, I knew it was coming. How could I not, nearly everyday in my son’s last year of preschool he had cried and even clawed at me in desperation as it was time to go into his classroom. We continued to persevere through these difficult...
Easy kid’s pizza ideas that are quick and fun. Get more than 10 pizza recipes for kids that are specially designed with them in mind and include ingredients you already have in your fridge! Of course, tips for picky eaters are included. If you ask any of my three children what their favorite food is, they will probably say: pizza. And, they’re not alone, right? Lots of kids (and adults) love pizza. In my house, we typically have pizza once...
Learn how to help your child or toddler with picky eating. Get practical tips and strategies you can start today for the picky eater in your life! At birthday parties, in the grocery store, and over coffee I hear parents everywhere talking about the lack of food their child eats. Sometimes their voices are strained with stress and fatigue from one-too-many meals that have ended in tears and frustration. They worry their child isn’t getting enough...
Come get this big list of easy and healthy breakfast ideas for kids that will fill up their tummy. Creative and classic ideas that will pique your child’s interest. Plus, tips to help kids eat new breakfast foods, yes even for the picky eater! You know the old adage… “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” I’m all for going against the grain, but this cliche definitely holds true. The problem is, most of...
Find out exactly what it means for a child to have an oral aversion, why some kids experience oral aversions, and most importantly how to overcome oral aversions! Has your child ever refused to eat… most kids have at one time or another. Has it ever been a persistent and consistent refusal to bring food anywhere near their face? Or, has your baby acted like a bottle of milk was poison when you brought it towards their mouth? It’s utterly...
Try these easy homemade hot pockets for a family meal, perfect for toddlers to teens, and even picky eaters. Great ideas for vegetarian, pizza, ham and cheese and mini hot pockets. Yum! Raise your hand if you have a kid that LOVES bread! I have three of them, and they’ll take bread any way they can get it. Years ago, I realized I could use this love of bread to get my kids, especially my – at the time- very picky eater, to eat some new...
Kids don’t come with a handbook, and it’s so easy to never be told valuable parenting advice from an expert that can change how you parent and help your child develop. I’m revealing 8 of these surprising parenting tips… Did you ever have one of those parenting moments when you want to scream, “Why wouldn’t ‘they’ tell me that?” Almost from the time we bring our babies home from the hospital we soon...
What is a food jag? Why does your child have one and how do you break one down so that picky eating can be improved and kids learn to eat a wider variety of foods? This feeding therapist and mom is answering it all! Have you ever stepped back and thought, “How did I get to this point?” when you were making the same meal, again, for your child? You’re likely preparing two different dinners, lunches, and breakfasts every single day. There’s...
Super easy, healthy, and filling evening snacks for kids. Get new ideas and maybe even have your child eat something new with these fun ideas that kids will get excited about. Ahh, the evening snack for kids. As parents, it makes us feel good to fill their little belly’s up so they have a nice deep long sleep – or so we hope. But, if we’re being honest, it can be a bit of a pain in the butt some nights. The kitchen is cleaned, or even...
