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.
Sensory issues can affect all areas of a child’s life from sensitivities to clothing to wild sensory seeking. Without understanding what sensory processing is and which sensory activities to use it can feel overwhelming helping your child calm down or regulate their sensory system.
Kids without any diagnosis, or those that have Autism, ADHD, or anxiety can have sensory issues, or as we prefer to call them, sensory needs. Some kids with sensory issues may have Sensory Processing Disorder, as well.
Learn about important strategies like sensory diets and sensory integration!
Top sensory strategies for the classroom and how to set up a great relationship with your child’s teacher so their sensory diet is working for everyone in the class. This post is sponsored by Fun and Function. Many kids that have sensory differences are faced with a variety of challenges in a traditional classroom that can make it difficult for them to succeed. Parents often know their child’s amazing potential, but also know that for their...
Due to the enormous popularity of 10 Sensory Red Flags, I wanted to share with you a few more, because the truth is there are a lot. Part of my mission here at Your Kid’s Table is to demystify sensory processing, but the sheer volume of behaviors that seem odd, quirky, annoying, or frustrating and are a result of sensory processing is huge. I suspect that you are here reading for one of two reasons. First, you are just beginning to suspect that sensory...
Please join me in giving Wendy Bertagnole of Imperfect Mom a warm welcome. She is here today writing a wonderfully helpful guest post on supporting your child’s sensory needs while still disciplining, when necessary. Of course, Wendy is no stranger around here. Wendy and I are working on a very special project that is under wraps for now, but will be an AWESOME resource for parents. So get to know Wendy better by reading this great post, in it she is just...
Sensory tents can be amazing powerful tools to calm and organize children. I’ll give you quick and steps to set one up that will work in your home! Today’s post is brought to you by Chewigem USA. Affiliate links used below. We have a lot of exciting things going on here today! I am very excited to be sharing with you one of my favorite sensory strategies: a sensory tent. Although it is certainly beneficial for many children with more obvious...
***Please note that the Sensory Solutions course has been discontinued. If you’re a former student, you have access to all of your materials indefinitely. We now offer the RISE with Sensory program, and you can learn more about it in this free workshop and get some awesome tips to help out your kid with sensory activities. Many of you have found your way to Your Kid’s Table because you are looking for research-based, therapeutic strategies to help your...
I am huge proponent of early intervention, the often free service available to children 0-3 living in the U.S. with developmental delays or disabilities. Services are completed in the child’s home and can address a variety of areas of development from feeding to speech to motor skills to sensory processing. I have covered all the details about early intervention in this post, but today Kutest Kids, an early intervention provider in the Philadelphia area is...
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 am grateful to Ilana for guest posting today at Your Kid’s Table while I’m on maternity leave with number 3. She works over at Fun and Function and is a physical therapist. She has some unique and fun sensory play ideas that you can do – easily – with your kids in the kitchen! Plus, you will find a coupon code and some product recommendations at the end of the post. Most of us spend quite a bit of time in the kitchen, yet we don’t often...
Disclosure: A copy of the book being reviewed was given to me at no cost. However, no agreement was made prior to this post about the opinion I would share. The opinion you read here is completely my own and is not influenced by any other party. This post also contains affiliate links for your convenience. I have to admit that I jumped at the opportunity to review this book. I love Holly and Rachel’s blog, Kids Activities Blog, because of the plethora of...
I am excited to share a fun and affordable sensory tool with you today- Senseez. I contacted them a few months ago about writing a review because as an occupational therapist it seemed like something that might help some of the families I work with. Particularly, kids with Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, and/or sensory processing difficulties. However, as an OT I know the powerful sensory input that vibration can give and may benefit an even wider group...
