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Why You MUST Meet Families Where They Are 🤝✨

11 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment Hallie Bulkin emphasizes the importance of meeting families where they are in their readiness and capacity, especially when dealing with complex feeding issues. She argues against overwhelming families with extensive home programs when they are struggling to manage daily life, and illustrates this with a case where parents of a NICU baby were reluctant to pursue further testing; she chose to pause the push until they were ready. Bulkin also highlights the role of the Feeding Hub’s office hours and mentorship in supporting therapists who are transitioning to more advanced feeding work, recommending short courses and one‑off trainings to help them build confidence and competence before diving deeper into specialized practice.

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But within that program was that you have to meet the family where they are. You can't be giving them these elaborate home programs and all these exercises to do and things to do when they just can't even get up and make through the day half the time. You need to do it really slowly and where they are. And I even had one of my case presentations, they were reluctant to do more testing on their NICU baby and I had to kind of, I wanted a modified done but I waited to kind of keep pushing that because they just weren't ready and sometimes you have to do that and that's, you know, a case for that. But also by doing the feeding hub office hours and mentoring in there, I've also seen that a lot of those therapists who are kind of in between that feed the peeds kind of level already they're ready. And I, you know, I always suggest take those courses, take a couple of those one offs and see what you think because it will make you want to dive in.