The way to end picky eater battles and help your child eat better so they thrive!
Give your child a lifelong healthy relationship with food.
Your child would eat more foods than they do?
Instead of the same few day in and day out.
Mealtimes weren’t a struggle and your family could enjoy a meal together?
Instead of failed meals or no meal at all, and forget about going to restaurants.
Your child wouldn’t freak out or totally refuse new and different foods?
Instead of feeling discouraged, frustrated, and burnt-out when a new food is an epic fail.
You felt good about their nutrition and health because of the foods they did eat?
Instead of being worried they aren’t getting the vitamins and nutrients they need.
Or, maybe you haven’t tried anything because you’re paralyzed in fear that if you change anything at all your child just won’t eat.
What Students Are Saying
Dayna
I’m a Pediatric Occupational Therapist and a Mom
I know the place you are in well. I get the frustrations, the worry, the stress. And, while what I teach parents is rooted in theory and research, it’s really built on what works in real homes, including mine.
In This Class, You’ll Learn Through
Individual Lessons
Visuals
Exercises
What You’ll Learn
There are 5 modules, or units, that each have 4 lessons in them, most around 15 – 20 minutes in length. Every module matches one of five Mealtime Works phases each building on the last to give you a complete plan. One step at a time, to have meals that work in your home.
- Understand what your role is as the parent during meals and what your child’s role is, clearly, once and for all
- End short order cooking
- Identify the many different ways we pressure our kids to eat
- Phase out using distractions to eat with minimal stress
- Handle well-meaning but unsolicited eating advice from strangers, friends, and family
- Create a positive eating environment in your home
Worksheets, Checklists, & Printables: Eating Do’s and Don’ts, Environment Action Planner, Handling Advice, and Many More!
- Does a feeding schedule matter and exactly how to implement one
- Where to feed your child
- How to offer more variety of food
- When and how to eat meals together
- Which mealtime rules are a must
- How to manage tantrums at meals
Worksheets, Checklists, & Printables: Rules Cheat Sheet, Routine Action Planner, Sample Schedule Template, and Many More!
- How to identify if there is an underlying cause to your child’s picky eating
- How to address sensory needs that are affecting eating
- How to improve coordination difficulties with eating
- How to manage constipation effectively and safely
- How to handle frequent gagging and throwing up
Worksheets, Checklists, & Printables: Sensory Strategies Quick Guide, Oral Motor Games, Red Flags Checklist, and Many More!
- Learn 3 specific and direct ways to increase the variety of foods without pressure
- How to build a bridge to new foods from ones they are already eating
- Why and how to use dips (like you never have before) to expand to new foods
- How to play with and explore foods with your child
- Understand the 5 phases of interaction that picky eaters go through with new or refused foods
- How to teach your child about new foods without turning them off
Worksheets, Checklists, & Printables: Build a Bridge Worksheet, Dip List, The Variety Action Planner and More!
- Why, how, and when to cook with your child
- How to plan meals that your whole family will eat
- How to present new foods to your child so they accept them
- How to make meals fun and intriguing to your child, easily
- How to help your child stay seated and focused at meals
Worksheets, Checklists, & Printables: The Extras Action Planner
- 4 special videos with live demonstrations of more advanced techniques taught in Modules 3 and 4 to show you exactly what they look like in real life and give you the confidence and support you need to implement in your own home.
Amazing Bonuses
01.
Live Q&As
Want personal feedback from an expert that’s helped 100’s of families? Get your questions answered during live question sessions with Alisha.
(Valued at $297)
02.
Menu Planning Bundle
Templates, samples, and checklists that incorporates everything you’ll learn in Mealtime Works to make planning meals for your entire family totally do-able. An incredible time-saver!
(Valued at $34)
03.
Digital Workbook
The brand new workbook houses every slide, cheat sheet, and printable all in one downloadable document so you can easily follow along, take notes, and share what your learning with other caregivers.
(Valued at $49)
What Students are saying
Don’t just take it from me, let other parents who’ve used this plan do the talking!
Mealtime Works is Perfect for You If…
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
I know the Mealtime Works plan works, but I want you to feel confident, so I welcome you to take 30 days to learn the strategies and begin to implement them. If, after those 30 days, you aren’t seeing any results, then show me the strategies you’ve implemented and the homework you’ve completed. I will gladly give you a full refund.
Lauren
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Valued at 1051$
Best Value
- 20+ Lessons Via Text or Video with Printable Slides
- 20+ Downloadable Worksheets, Cheat Sheets, & Checklists
- 100% Online with Guaranteed 1 Year Access
- Menu Planning Bonus
- Hands-On Demonstration Videos
- Students Only Access to Private Discussion Board
- Live Group Monthly Q/A Sessions with Alisha
- Save 15% more with this one time payment
Payment Plan Option
- All of the features of the Mealtime Works Class, but available in 4 monthly payments of 69$.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long will it take to see results?
What if I don't see results?
While I think it is highly unlikely that you won’t see any results if you’ve applied the strategies and followed my suggestions, I will give a full refund in 30 days if you aren’t satisfied and can show me the work that you’ve done to put this plan into action in your home. Remember, you have direct access to me through the discussion board and live Q&A’s if you feel you need specific attention. My goal has always been to create an effective thriving community of parents.
How long do I have access to the class materials and discussion board?
You will have access to all of the course materials through the class site for 1 year, but the transcripts, slides, and handouts are all downloadable and printable. You will also have access to the discussion board and live Q/A’s for 6 months.
What ages is this class geared towards?
This class is beneficial for children 1 year to 11 years old, however transitioning to table foods and baby food aren’t covered specifically. When it applies, detailed strategies are shared for your kids 6 and under, as well as for children 7 years +.
Can professionals join Mealtime Works, is there a certificate?
This course is appropriate for occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, developmental therapists, physical therapists, teachers, social workers, psychologists, pediatrician’s, and any other professional that works with children or families from ages 1-10 that experience picky eating.
This is an introductory course with no prerequisite required. This class Is AOTA approved for 10 hours (1 CEU), All lessons must be completed and quizzes must score 80% or higher to complete the course with a certificate.
Course Objectives for Professionals:
- Identify what the parent and child’s roles are during mealtimes
- Identify the variety of different ways adults intentionally and unintentionally pressure kids to eat during mealtimes.
- Identify the ways that an adult’s previous experiences and own upbringing affect the way they feed their own child.
- Identify ways to instruct families on how to create a positive eating environment in the home with specific tools and methodology outlined by the Division of Responsibility by Ellen Satter.
- Identify how to create a routine and schedule for mealtimes.
- Recognize when a child is not sitting in proper positioning for meals and identify ways to achieve best seating position for mealtimes.
- Apply strategies for serving food in different ways to increase a child’s variety of food during mealtimes.
- Identify beneficial mealtime rules to support families during mealtimes.
- Identify the underlying causes of picky eating and construct a plan for addressing needs and challenges that cause picky eating during mealtimes.
- Recognize the variances of picky eating between children, and construct ways to apply strategies based on their needs during and prior to mealtimes.
- Apply 3 primary strategies to increase the variety of foods a child eats at mealtimes.
- Employ effective tools for helping children resistant to engaging in cooking activities.
- Select specific strategies to simplify and maximize meal planning for children.
- Recall a variety of tools and presentation styles that children resistant to trying new foods tend to respond to.
- Apply sensory strategies when appropriate to help children tolerate sitting at the table for mealtimes.
Your Kid’s Table is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course Approval ID# 00990. This Distant Learning-Independent course is offered at 1 CEU Beginner Level OT Service Delivery. AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures.
Hi, I’m Alisha. Your Teacher.
She is also a pediatric occupational therapist with over a decade of experience working directly with families to improve how and what their children eat. Alisha is a mom to three young boys that have given her the chance to put her strategies and feeding solutions into practice on a daily basis.
Lisa
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Valued at 1051$
Best Value
- 20+ Lessons Via Text or Video with Printable Slides
- 20+ Downloadable Worksheets, Cheat Sheets, & Checklists
- 100% Online with 1 Year Access
- Menu Planning Bonus
- Hands-On Demonstration Videos
- Students Only Access to Private Discussion Board
- Live Group Monthly Q/A Sessions with Alisha
- Save 15% more with this one time payment
Payment Plan Option
- All of the features of the Mealtime Works Class, but available in 4 monthly payments of 69$.