Safety Stools
Children’s safety stools are becoming more and more popular. These stools serve two very important functions in a child’s environment.
- For the child’s sanity. Children want to interact with their environment and to participate in everything that is going on. Unfortunately, everything is really built to an adult scale. As a result, all of the “action” is going on in the 4 1/2″ to 6″ area, while children are below this area. As a result, kids get a great view of the cabinets, legs, hips, etc. Now that’s booooring! Especially if you’re 3. Since children naturally want to be involved in everything that’s going on, (they will learn more if they are!) they will do everything they can to get themselves up to adult level, which brings us to point number 2.
- For the adult’s sanity. Children will request insistently to be at adult level. This usually takes on the form of “up, mommy. UP!!” repeated until said desire is fullfilled. This simple statement, repeated over and over generally does get on ones nerves, especially when trying to cook dinner or when doing other important, time sensitive tasks. So now the adult has to choose to either do the task one handed or perch the child on a chair. Neither alternative is great.
Where safety stools come in.
As parents, we really do not want to be annoyed with our little bundles of joy / energy that are our children. Children do not want to be left out of what is going on. Parents want our children to be safe while this is all going on. Safety stools are the answer. With a safety stool, our children can be up at our height interacting with us. We can work two handed. We don’t become annoyed with our children with the incessant requests to be at our height. Our children can safely be at our height.
Safety stools allow for a calmer, more relaxed positive learning environment for children, while keeping our children safe. Everybody wins!
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