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.
A weekly podcast for parents raising kids with sensory needs, ADHD, and big emotions. Alisha Grogan, pediatric OT and mom, shares do-able strategies for parents short on time and energy that build regulated, capable, and connected kids.
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.
Does your kid gag or even throw up because they’re sensitive to smells, especially from food? It may seem strange, but there are some real reasons why and more importantly ways to help them! Does this sound familiar… you’re feeling good about the fact that you’ve pulled dinner together. The kids are miraculously keeping themselves busy. You’ve thought through what you’re going to serve, making sure that you also have a...
Soothing popsicles for sore throat made easily in a few minutes, with only 2 ingredients! And, they boost your immune system too. This is a sponsored post, all opinions are my own. Every time my kids get a sore throat I have two challenges that lay before me. The first is wondering if they’re even old enough to have cough syrup. A few years back, they changed the “safe” age from 2 to 6. That’s a big difference, and we can...
Fun plates for kids and toddlers that will not only make mealtimes enjoyable, but actually help your kids eat new foods! Get all sorts of kids dinnerware and unique toddler utensil ideas. Ever put food down in front of your kid and they refuse to eat it? I don’t know a parent that hasn’t experienced this at some time or another, and for some parents its a reality they face daily. I can think of LOTS of times this has happened to me, and...
Sensory diet cards are an amazing tool to help kids improve their attention, communication, and more! Learn how to use them and print your own set. I walked into her classroom in the middle of a lesson, and she looked up at me and said, “It’s been a bad morning. Can you work some magic?” Immediately, I knew what she was asking of me. Peter was a child in her class that I had on my caseload as an occupational therapist, and he had a...
Get inspired with amazing messy play for your kid or toddler that is totally easy. Over 47 messy play ideas with tips to keep clean up simple and why the heck messy play is so important. Sam, that’s my oldest son, was around 16 months old and I can remember thinking, “Is he old enough?” I stood there staring at the finger paints and then at him, wondering if he would be able to actually participate in this messy play activity without...
Learn how to handle dessert with picky eaters in a way that teaches them to have a healthy relationship with all types of food. Healthy dessert ideas for picky eaters, too! Mom, “Can I have dessert?” “Only if you finish your dinner.” How many times did you hear that as a kid. My guess is, a lot. Collectively, as a generation, our parents used dessert to motivate us to eat every bite of our chicken, finish our milk, and eat the cold...
Tons of oral motor exercises for toddlers and kids that can easily and naturally be used in the home. Plus, get a free downloadable PDF! I’m getting a little bit technical in this post, as I tell you about the powerful, but often unheard of, oral motor exercises. Unless you happen to have a child in feeding or speech therapy, then you’ve probably not heard the term before. It’s very common lingo in both occupational and speech...
An easy baby and kid friendly fish recipe your child will eat, fish cakes for kids and babies. Quick and delicious with a tasty dip to serve alongside your kid’s fish cakes. Plus, tips for serving to babies and picky eaters. Affiliate links are used below. Before kids I LOVED cooking and would pour over recipes to make something new and different for dinner several times a week. After kids, cooking is one of the many items on my to-do list, but I...
Dealing with picky eaters can be incredibly frustrating! Get these 4 foolproof tips to keep your patience and sanity. Plus tips for picky eaters! While I was pregnant with my first child, I, like other expectant mothers, imagined what color hair my baby would have, what his temperament would be like, and how big he would be. I’m sure, unlike other mothers to be, I thought about what kind of eater my son would be. Strange, right? Well, not...
What is sensory integration therapy? Does your child need it? Learn how to get help for sensory issues and what two powerful sensory processing disorder treatment options you have for your child. One of my biggest passions is explaining what sensory processing has to do with children’s confusing, frustrating, or odd behaviors to parents. While lots of kid’s actions can’t be explained by sensory, it’s sometimes the...
