Training care for Mealtime Struggles to Mealtime Success for Infant Toddler and Preschoolers

Child care training on mealtime | Food Throwing, Picky eating, and more!

Mealtime Struggles to Mealtime Success — with Infants, Toddlers & Preschoolers

Mealtimes in child care can feel like a lot. One child is throwing food. Another won’t stay at the table. Someone else is barely eating… and you’re not sure if you should step in or let it go. 
When children are eating over half their daily meals in your care, it can quickly become one of the hardest parts of your day.

It’s time you approached mealtime differently, so you understand what’s actually driving these challenges and how to respond in the moment with confidence.
This self-paced training for infant and pre-school teachers will help you learn:
  1. How to get infants ready for solids, tips for bottle refusal, utensil use, and how to handle gagging
  2. To handle food throwing, food refusal, and toddlers who won’t sit at the table
  3. Ways to support picky eaters and build a positive relationship with food

Know exactly what to do to make those chaotic mealtimes calmer, more successful, and enjoyable for everyone.
Resources

Includes a downloadable handbook, yours forever to reference again and again

Inside this 60+ page digital handbook you'll find:
  • Age-by-age feeding milestones and portion size guides from baby's first bites through preschool
  • Practical strategies with visuals for your most common mealtime struggles like bottle refusal, introducing solid foods to baby, how to stop toddler throwing food, and picky eating
  • Ready-to-use feeding checklists to help you recognize when a child may need additional support
Training outcomes

By the end of this 3 hour | 0.3 CEU training, participants will be able to:

  • Identify 5 ways to support getting babies ready for solid foods.
  • Name 1 possible solution to common problems that occur at meal times.
  • Identify the nutritional needs of children from 6 months to 5 years.

See what early childhood educators are saying

"I love that Kelly Applies her SLP background and expertise to her trainings.

As an Early Development Specialist, I love the developmentally appropriate practices Kelly shares. I am not an SLP so there are areas of the oral-motor realm that I am not a specialist in and I truly value this information!”
"I really enjoyed the details and examples used. And the passion of the teacher.

What I liked about the training was the respecting of cultural differences of children in their foods preferences, strategies to place non preferred and preferred foods together to encourage children to try new foods, and I liked that the trainer was being clear and precise."
“I liked the supplemental videos because they showed an example of what should and should not be done.  The presentation was interesting, well presented, researched back and easy to remember.

I've been wondering whether or not I was right in presenting one food at a time for the almost 2 year old. I will go back to giving him the "plate" with a variety of food and allow him to decide his preference."

Mealtime doesn’t have to feel like a battle

Know What To Expect At Every Stage
Clear guidance on what’s typical across feeding stages so you can confidently support infants, toddlers, and preschoolers at mealtimes.
Real Solutions For Real Mealtime Problems
Stop guessing what to do when problems come up. Get simple, step-by-step strategies with video examples so you can actually see strategies in action.
Created By A Speech Therapist
Research backed tips and strategies you can actually use in busy classrooms that make mealtime fun for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

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Meet Your Trainer

Hi, I'm Kelly
A licensed Speech Language Pathologist, Early Intervention Specialist, Child Care Trainer, and Former Family Child Care Owner

I work alongside teachers every day caring for children with developmental delays, feeding challenges, speech and language disorders, and more.

I kept hearing the same thing: "Our trainings don't teach us this." So I created trainings that do! 

No fluff. Just practical strategies designed to fit naturally into everyday routines with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
Speech-language pathologist working on professional development resources for early childhood educators

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