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.
Picky eating is a phase most children go through as a toddler, but it’s not always a phase and some kids don’t grow out of it. Get started with our best resources like How I Turned My Picky Eater Around, 27 Picky Eater Meal Ideas, and our free workshop: 3 Keys to Turn Around Picky Eating!
Find a real do-able strategy to the elusive question, “how to get kids to eat,” especially new foods or one’s they refuse so they can eat a wider variety! (This post was previously published as a guest post on Playing with Words 365 in 2012. However, there are additional updates.) “Picky” eaters are among us, many parents have at least one child that they struggle with at meal times....
*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....
*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...
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...
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...
Yes, I know it is January and I’m posting about pumpkin bread, but it has been far too long since I have shared a recipe with you! Besides, pumpkin is a wonderful, immune boosting food that you can easily get in a can year round. See my pumpkin waffles/pancakes recipe if you are looking for more inspiration. Unfortunately, we had a major setback in our constipation woes around here after a nasty little virus made it’s rounds among the kids. That got me...
Please note this post contains affiliate links that help support the information I share at Your Kid’s Table. I’m thrilled to have FunBites sponsoring this post. They have been a great supporter of Your Kid’s Table and help me keep tips and info coming your way. FunBites fits in perfect around here because the creators and owners of this company designed their “fun” cutters to help their own picky eater at meals. FunBites...
Picky eating is often a complicated problem that could potentially have many layers to it. I don’t expect a children’s book to solve your child’s issues around food, but having the “right” book gives you the opportunity to talk about food in a positive way that is meaningful to kids. Maybe this will give your kid the motivation they need to try something new? I also like the idea of building off of some of the foods in the book. For...
I am tremendously grateful to Marissa, awesome mom and elementary school teacher, for writing this post I am sharing with you today. Marissa is not a blogger, nor does she have any marketing connections that she is trying to promote. She wrote this post because she wanted to help other parents that were struggling with their kids eating. As you will read, her son Reed, had difficulty transitioning onto table foods. I started working with Reed and his...
I have been remiss in not sharing with you this very valuable tool in helping picky eaters and problem feeders eat a larger variety of foods. Incorporating dips into your child’s meal could make a huge difference, especially when used in combination with other strategies such as expanding on what they are already eating, playing with their food, and cooking together. I often hear one of two responses when I first recommend using dips to parents. They...
