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Starting Solid 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!

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Child Development Skills

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!

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School Age Kids

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!

Nutrition

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.

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Recipes

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!

Sensory Issues

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.

Sensory Diets

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

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.

How to Teach Your Baby or Toddler to Eat Table Foods

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!

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Baby & Toddler Feeding Milestones

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!

Feeding Therapy

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!

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Occupational Therapy

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!

Teens

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!

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Strategies

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.

Sensory Issues

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!  

40+ Easy Sensory Obstacle Course Ideas for Kids

Obstacle course ideas for all ages, indoors or outdoors with little to no prep. Plus learn obstacle course benefits and get a list of activities to make your own!    Climbing, crashing, swinging, crawling… There’s a reason most kids love movements like these from a young age and will actively seek them out.  You can combine all these activities by setting up an easy, low prep obstacle course! As an occupational therapist and mom it is one of...

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Sensory Issues With Clothing: How to Help Your Child Get Dressed

Clothing sensory issues can be exhausting! Learn why kids may have a sensory sensitivity, how to help your kid who refuses to wear clothes, get ideas for sensory friendly clothing. Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure.   I’m standing in the kitchen trying to enjoy the hot coffee that just spit out of my Keurig and I wince when I hear my son, crying in the distance. As a pediatric occupational therapist I know it’s because of sensory issues with...

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Everything Oral Sensory Processing: Activities and Input Ideas

Learn everything you need to know about oral sensory processing: oral sensory seeking activities, sensory diet ideas, calming benefits for picky eaters, sensory seekers and sensory sensitivities! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure.   Thank you to our sponsor, Chewigem USA. Chewigem USA provides a wide assortment of quality and safe chewy jewelry, which is perfect for oral sensory processing. So many kids with oral needs benefit from quick...

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Potty Training and Toilet Problems in Kids with Sensory Issues

The best strategies for potty training and toilet problems for kids with sensory issues, SPD, ADHD, and ASD. Help for refusing to go, withholding, frequent accidents and more! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Was she losing her mind? Surely potty training isn’t that complicated. All of her friend’s kids seemed to have no more than the usual amount of trouble getting their kids potty trained.  Her daughter was now 4 and had...

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46 Essential Vestibular Activities and Input Ideas

Discover over 45 vestibular activities that can calm, regulate, and improve attention in your child. Plus, get vestibular exercises for kids that seek or avoid vestibular input.  Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure.   Vestibular input is incredibly powerful and can have amazing or surprising effects. Vestibular processing is nearly always at work in everything we do, arguably more than any other sensory system. Vestibular activities, when used...

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Three Things I Wish My Parents Had Known, From an Autistic Adult

An Autistic adult, that was once an autistic girl, offers 3 things she wishes her parents knew on how to support kids with sensory issues as they grow and change. As occupational therapists, at Your Kid’s Table we know that development happens across the lifespan, and that sensory kids grow into sensory adults. And, that sensory processing affects ALL people in different ways, from infancy to adulthood.  People with Autism are more likely to show sensory...

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Ultimate List of Sensory Bin Ideas, Incredibly Easy!

 40 plus easy sensory bin ideas that are perfect for home or school. And, get tips to encourage play and benefits of sensory bins.     Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure.   Lots of sensory bin/box ideas are floating around in the blogosphere and pop up on Pinterest from time to time. As an occupational therapist, this is one play idea that I use very often, as most OT’s do, and I am kind of obsessed with them because of...

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Create a Sensory Diet with this Template: Free PDF

The ultimate guide to sensory diets that includes a sensory diet template PDF, powerful sensory diet examples, and 4 steps to make your own sensory diet today! Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Are you hearing about a sensory diet for the first time? Wondering how to create a sensory diet for your child? While it may seem complicated, as an occupational therapist I’m here to break it all down into something that you understand, one step at...

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8 Tricks to Improve Transitions for Children

Does your child need help with transitions? Learn 8 strategies and transition activities to lose the meltdowns and move from one activity to the next without a fight.  Affiliate links used below. See our full disclosure. Change is hard.  Most people can agree that switching gears from one thing to the next can be challenging at times for a number of reasons. Have you ever noticed that tension starts to rise the second you tell your kids, “5 more minutes...

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Here’s a Method to Help Kids That Hate Hair Washing

Do you dread washing your kid’s hair because they hate it so much and throw a total fit at any attempt to do so? Understand why your child hates hair washing and learn these simple strategies to help!   It was the night before school picture day and I was agonizing over bath time.  My 3-year-old’s hair was a matted mess, and any attempt I made to wash it over the last several months was met with hysterics. My frustration caused my patience to grow...

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