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.
Want a 7-day meal plan for kids that includes meals for breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner time? Find these easy, do-able, and healthy recipes inside that are perfect for the whole family! Another day, another dinner to make. Does anyone else feel that way? Because the truth is, I do sometimes, and if I don’t have a meal plan for kids at the ready, I am DEFINITELY feeling that way. I specify “for kids” because even though I want...
I’m revealing the truth about these common, but dangerous, rumors parents are often told about their kids with sensory issues. Learn more so you can help your child overcome sensory issues. It’s a shame that something as common as sensory issues is, at best, misunderstood and, at worst, totally unknown to many parents and professionals that work with kids. There are so many rumors, myths, and straight up lies about kids that have sensory...
Finally understand why your child has trouble with appetite, eating too much, toileting, or big emotions. It’s all related to interoception, and I’m teaching you 3 ways to help your child that struggle in these areas. Not only was her daughter a picky eater. She never seemed hungry. It was like she had no appetite at all and could go for hours on end without eating a thing… Their son was a bright boy, but he could not get the hang of...
Kids can easily fly under the radar with all sorts of hidden struggles they face in the classroom. Learn 7 often unseen ways your child might struggle in the classroom and how you can help them work through it! Does your kid seem uninterested in school? Or, maybe they dread it? Do you get bad reports on their behavior and school work from the teacher on the daily? Or, maybe since online learning you’ve noticed that your child doesn’t...
As a pediatric OT, I’m always surprised at how many parents of kids with Autism (ASD) haven’t been told about the big link to sensory processing. Read on to learn about this important connection… You’ve probably heard the staggering statistic that 1 in every 59 children have Autism. That’s a lot of kids. As an occupational therapist, I’ve stood next to dozens of families, including my own sister, as they tried to make...
Kids that are tired all the time, zoned out, or simply not interested in participating in many activities can get labeled as lazy, but there could be a powerful explanation to this behavior: sensory low registration. Learn what it is, how to know if your child has it, and what to do about it. He’s slumped in his chair, half folded all over his desk. His head is resting on his arm while the teacher stands in front of the classroom teaching....
Want to make the most out of mealtime with your kid and have them eating well and trying new foods? I thought so. Check out these 7 insider tips to try today… Who doesn’t love some down-right simple hacks to get your kid eating different food, and to decrease any stress you’re having at meals with your child? Over the last year, we started sharing some powerful tips on Instagram, and our followers kept asking for more. These graphics and...
Try this crazy simple way to cook green beans for kids! Learn the special twist to preparing green beans so that your kid comes back for more. Perfect for picky eaters too, with just 5 minutes of prep time. If you’re like most parents, you wish your kids would eat more vegetables. Or, any vegetables at all. The truth is, vegetables are hard for kids. They’re bitter, often green – a color most other foods are not, and they tend to be...
Ready to remove or decrease processed foods from your family’s diet? I have you covered with 7 simple steps that are painless and eliminate stress. You can do this! A couple of days ago, I got a text from my neighbor that read: “We are working really hard to remove processed foods from our diet! Do you have any articles, recipes, or stores to suggest?!? Or, just general shopping tips?!?” I love getting texts like this from friends and...
Whether your child has a fine motor delay or not, these three tricks are perfect for improving fine motor skills in your child. They don’t require any special set up, just some small adjustments to the activities they’re already participating in. Last year, at my youngest son’s preschool parent teacher conference, it was suggested that I consider occupational therapy to improve my son’s fine motor skills. As a pediatric occupational...
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!
