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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!

Top 5 Guides to Help Babies That Won't Eat

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!

Top 5 Feeding Therapy Guides

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!

Top 5 Guides For Teens

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!  

What to Do When Your Child Is Overwhelmed at Parties and Large Crowds

Some kids are overwhelmed and scared to attend parties or other crowded spaces. It might be more than shyness. Figure out what’s going on and how to help your child!    At first, you might have thought your child was shy when they cried or clung to you at a birthday party. But over time, it became evident that it was a lot more than shyness.  Some children get overwhelmed at parties or in large crowds.  For some of those kids, the...

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The Ultimate Holiday Guide for Helpful and Fun Sensory Toys

If you’re looking to get a special gift for your child this holiday season that will last and help your child develop, then dive into this mega sensory toy holiday guide to find an awesome toy for your child!   I love sensory toys because they’re incredibly beneficial for every child’s development. Kids also have a ton of fun with them and they’re usually toys that last and aren’t tossed out the following year like lots of other...

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Why Your Child Might Need Reflex Integration Therapy or Exercises

Each child is born with a set of critical primitive reflexes to help them develop and keep them safe, but it’s important these reflexes disappear. Learn why and if reflex integration therapy is right for your child. *Affiliate links used below*.   So much happens beyond what we can see as our children grow and develop. It’s pretty extraordinary. But sometimes, seemingly hidden parts of our kids development can go awry. The result is all sorts of...

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Easy Movement Break Ideas Kids Can Do at Home or School

Research shows that kids learn, attend, and follow directions better with movement. Get your kid moving with these 50+ movement break ideas for kids that are perfect for online learning at home or in a traditional classroom.   Sitting in front of a screen or at a desk for the better part of 6-7 hours everyday for school can be hard for kids. Heck, it’s hard for a lot of adults.  Many teachers have learned that giving kids movement breaks in between...

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5 Smart Sensory Questions Parents Asked: Answered by an OT

Learn what to do when your child has a hard time falling asleep, won’t eat certain textures, what to do when your child is always on the go, and more help for parents who’s kids have sensory needs. Last month, our Your Kid’s Table newsletter community had the chance to ask me anything, and boy did they! This post will be the first of three over the next month or so answering many of their burning questions about how they can help their children....

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How to Keep Kids Focused for Online School

It can be a challenge to keep kids focused on learning online with all the distractions in a home environment. But, with some simple tricks, tools, and strategies, you can teach your child how to focus on online school while improving their attention and concentration!   Thousands of schools all over the world aren’t opening this fall for the first time in modern history. Or, they’re opening under some major modifications, like our school district...

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How to Identify Sensory Issues in Toddlers

It’s easy to miss signs of sensory issues in toddlers with their characteristic busyness and particularity, but these early signs for sensory sensitivity and sensory seeking can help you improve their sensory development and drastically decrease tantrums!   Got a toddler? Then you know that they never stop, have poor attention, and tend to get into everything. Sometimes they do odd things like eat bits of dirt off the floor or rip their diaper off. You...

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What to Do When Your Child Struggles With Anger

Do you have a child that struggles with anger and big emotions? Learn why and how to help them with an amazing parenting strategy to help them cope and manage their emotions in a new way!   I’ve been asked, “What do I do when my child gets angry?”  As an OT, I have a couple of thoughts, but I’m not the expert on anger management for children, so I turned to my good friend and my co-teacher of Sensory Solutions, Wendy Bertagnole of the Exceptional...

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Is Your Anxiety Rubbing Off On Your Kid? 3 Ways to Avoid It

When parents are faced with their own anxiety, it can take over their life. Learn how to prevent children from becoming anxious too with three easy strategies!  I don’t have an anxiety diagnosis. But, anxiety has been something I’ve struggled with for most of my life. I didn’t realize how much so until my sons began to experience anxiety at a young age. I don’t think I caused their anxiety, but there’s no denying the fact that...

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Top 10 Sensory Swings for Kid’s Development and Sensory Processing

Sensory swings can help a child calm down, improve attention, and following directions. Learn the top 10 sensory swings for kids and how to use them safely with your child.  Sensory swings are a powerful tool to support and encourage any child’s development. They are even more powerful for kids that have sensory needs, SPD, ADHD, or Autism because they directly work to improve sensory processing. As a result, they can help kids calm down or get the...

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