Learning to Chew: When a Child Gets Stuck on Purees Some children move from smooth food to lumps to family meals without anyone noticing it happened. Others stall. The purees keep working, the lumpy version is refused or gagged back, and a month becomes six. It is one...
Building Language at Home: What Actually Moves a Late Talker Around one in six two-year-olds has fewer words than expected, and most of them are fine. That statistic is usually offered as reassurance, and it is half of the story. The other half is that you cannot tell...
When Behavior Escalates: Reading Dysregulation and What Helps When a child’s behavior escalates, the instinct is to ask what they are trying to get. Sometimes that is the right question. Often it is not, because a child who has lost regulation is not...
Food Selectivity: When a Limited Diet Warrants an Evaluation Most young children go through a period of eating a narrow range of foods. It is developmentally ordinary, it peaks somewhere around two, and it usually resolves. A smaller group of children never comes out...
Sensory Processing at Home: What Helps and What Doesn’t Sensory processing is how the nervous system takes in information from the body and the environment and decides what to do with it. When that process is efficient, a child can sit through dinner, tolerate a...
Mealtimes Without a Fight There is a dinner that repeats itself in a lot of houses. The plate has been sitting there for twenty minutes. You have already tried the airplane, the dessert bribe, taking away the tablet, and giving up entirely. Your child has touched...
