We just got some great news in from little Partners. It looks like plans are moving forward to produce three new colors. They have chosen a classic white, a sheik black, and a more rustic dark maple. Of course, they will continue to carry the 
original natural toned Learning Tower. Word has it that the price for the new painted Learning Towers will be bumped slightly up to cover extra production costs. Little Partners is hoping to have these out by this fall.
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Press Release:
The Learning Tower Gives Toddlers A Boost To Whip Up Gingerbread, Latkes & More
Shreveport, LA (August 9, 2007) — What’s the holiday season without the smells of something special being created in the kitchen? Whether it’s building a gingerbread house or whipping up a batch of potato latkes, December-only-foods welcome the holiday season and create memories. But when you are only 2 or 3 feet tall, the kitchen counter remains a mystery. This year toddlers everywhere are applauding The Learning Tower by Little Partners, an award-winning juvenile furniture maker, because now they can have their cake and lick the spoon!
Website Totsafe.com says it best, “children love to help adults cook! Help make kitchen time safe with The Learning Tower step stool from Little Partners, Inc. This beautifully crafted, natural wood step stool has a stable base that won’t tip over when your little one climbs in or stands on the step stool. Four sturdy side supports help prevent falls. The adjustable height platform adjusts easily to suit any child’s height or activity. Recommended
for children ages 18 months-6 years and tested to hold up to 500 pounds and can accommodate 2 children at one
time!”
Winner of four national awards including Dr. Toy’s Best 10 Active Toys, The Learning Tower can also be used as a desk, a fort, or a puppet theater and complements any home decor. Its stable, no-tip design wipes clean easily and fits flush against average countertops. Suggested retail price is $169.95. The Learning Tower also received 2007 awards for iParenting Media Outstanding Products Awards, Mr. Dad Father’s Day Seal of Approval and NAPPA (National Parenting Publications Awards).
In addition to its primary purpose as a step-up, The Learning Tower can easily be converted into a magically fun playhouse with The Playhouse Kit. This adorable accessory set includes an easily-attachable roof, red curtains, and four theme signs to create a puppet theatre, doll house, drive-thru, and lemonade stand. From helping in the kitchen to putting on a show, children’s imaginations are sparked with The Learning Tower and The Playhouse Kit. The Learning Tower Playhouse Kit has a suggested retail of $32.95. Combination sets are available for a suggested retail price of $189.95.
A generation ago girls baked a cake in an Easy Bake oven and boys made a mud pie. Today retailers such as Williams-Sonoma showcase children’s kitchen products that are junior-sized and irresistible to parents and grandparents. Now cooking with your kids is not only a great way to spend quality time, especially during the holidays, it facilitates teaching skills that your children will need later in life. With The Learning Tower, toddlers get a step-up in the world of culinary delights.
Shreveport, LA (August 6, 2007) – There is no disputing that The Learning Tower and its
accessory, the Playhouse Kit, lift children’s bodies, minds and imaginations higher. But the
incredibly innovative and versatile products have also lifted its makers, Little Partners, Inc.
higher because they’ve just received a pair of 2007 iParenting Media Award for Outstanding
Products.
Here’s what some of the iParenting reviewers said were the positive characteristics of both
Little Partner’s products:
The Learning Tower – Little Partners - This is the only adjustable-height wooden stepstool for children that converts to a desk, puppet theater, a fort, lemonade stand, drive thru, doll house, or whatever a child wants it to be. It’s a safe environment to climb up and down, and a special place for a child to create and work together or to solve problems.
Award category: Gear & Equipment.
The Learning Tower Playhouse Kit – Little Partners - Transform your child’s Learning Tower into a versatile playhouse with the Playhouse Kit. This adorable accessory set includes an easily-attachable roof, red curtains, and 4 theme signs to create a puppet theatre, doll house, drive-thru, and lemonade stand. From helping in the kitchen to putting on a show, spark your child’s imagination with the Learning Tower and Playhouse Kit.
Award category: Gear & Equipment.
iParenting Media is the premier media company focused on parents. The company uses several media channels to reach its target market of parents, parents-to-be and women: online, print, radio and podcasts. iParenting Media’s Award Program provides a credible and objective method of determining the best products and recognizes those products with its iParenting Media Award. It is dedicated to informing, inspiring and uniting the parenting community it serves via its multiple media platforms of the Internet, syndicated newspaper column, radio show and
video.
The goal of iParenting’s awards is to provide the best parenting content and community platform for its members; and expanding sales, building strong customer relationships and increasing branding for its clients. It does this through innovation, responsiveness and a passion to be the best, which leads to its users’ and clients’ satisfaction. It is a team of motivated individuals and its strength is generated from its devotion to its community, its
clients, its industry and its employees.
Press release:
Young Chefs Get A Boost With The Learning Tower
Shreveport, LA – Today’s sophisticated preschoolers love to emulate their parents, especially in the kitchen, where delicious smells and colorful foods become a classroom of life lessons. The trouble is, when you only stand 3 feet tall it’s tough to be an active participant at the kitchen counter. Lucky for mini-Martha Stewarts or Wolfgang Pucks, there’s The Learning Tower by Little Partners, an award-winning juvenile furniture maker.
Website Babyproofingplus.com recommends The Learning Tower because “standing at your level at the kitchen counter — rather than waist-high — your child makes the leap from curious observer to eager participant. Simple tasks like spreading peanut butter, pouring juice, wiping countertops, and washing dishes reward with a sense of accomplishment and feed that growing need for independence.”
Adds Website Totsafe.com, “children love to help adults cook! Help make kitchen time safe with The Learning Tower step stool from Little Partners, Inc. This beautifully crafted, natural wood step stool has a stable base that won’t tip over when your little one climbs in or stands on the step stool. Four sturdy side supports help prevent falls. The adjustable height platform adjusts easily to suit any child’s height or activity. Recommended for children ages 18 months-6 years and tested to hold up to 500 pounds and can accommodate 2 children at one time!”
Winner of Dr. Toy’s Best 10 Active Toys, The Learning Tower can also be used as a desk, a fort, or a puppet theater and complements any home decor. Its stable, no-tip design wipes clean easily and fits flush against average countertops. Suggested retail price is $169.95.
In addition to its primary purpose as a step-up, The Learning Tower can easily be converted into a magically fun playhouse with The Playhouse Kit. This adorable accessory set includes an easily-attachable roof, red curtains, and four theme signs to create a puppet theatre, doll house, drive-thru, and lemonade stand. From helping in the kitchen to putting on a show, children’s imaginations are sparked with The Learning Tower and The Playhouse Kit. The Learning Tower Playhouse Kit has a suggested retail of $32.95. Combination sets are available for a suggested retail price of $189.95.
A generation ago girls baked a cake in an Easy Bake oven and boys made a mud pie. Today retailers such as Williams-Sonoma showcase children’s kitchen products that are junior-sized and irresistible to parents and grandparents. Now cooking with your kids is not only a great way to spend quality time, it facilitates teaching skills that your children will need later in life. With The Learning Tower, toddlers get a step-up in the world of culinary delights.
For more information about Little Partners visit their website at www.littlepartners.com.
Innovative Step-Up Set Opens A Whole New World For Toddlers
Shreveport, LA – Children are all about exploration. The entire world is new and they want to know everything about it. “How do I stop running without falling down?” “What does that pebble taste like?” And, “How can I cook like mommy?” are just some of the themes they explore. Unfortunately, because they’re still small, not everything is accessible which often makes for some fairly frustrated toddlers.
One very simple way to help toddlers in their conquest of their new world will be on display in booth 1320 at the American International Toy Fair in New York City from February 11 - 14. In order to help her young daughter with her desire to explore the world of high kitchen counters, an innovative mom in Louisiana created an utterly magical stepstool system called, The Learning Tower.
Keeping in mind that her toddler was still perfecting things like balance, mom made sure to surround the step stool with rails so her child wouldn’t topple over sideways or backwards. Not only did the stepstool allow her daughter to enter a new, “taller” world, it made her feel like a big girl… just like mommy.
Besides helping children to bond with their parents and emulate them as they prepare and cook meals, The Learning Tower helps toddlers to develop vital skills. In addition to improving their balance and fine motor skills, for a 2-year old, making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is a huge accomplishment. Then, using the company’s newest addition, The Playhouse Kit, the stepstool can be converted into a playhouse so the kids can eat their PB&J’s at a kitchen table in their imaginations. Their self-esteem soars, giving them that wonderful, “I did it!” feeling.
Constructed of sturdy, high-quality layered birch The Learning Tower is solid and made to last. Its four-sided design and roomy platform fosters both child and caregivers’ feelings of security and safety while enabling the child’s desire to be independent and inquisitive. To accommodate different aged children, the platform height adjusts quickly and easily. Adjustment is so easy that using it for different ages and sizes of kids in one household is practical and simple. And to prove it was made by a mom, its durable, high-gloss, natural finish cleans easily with a damp cloth.
In addition to its primary purpose as a step-up, The Learning Tower can easily be converted into a magically fun playhouse with the The Playhouse Kit. This adorable accessory set includes an easily-attachable roof, red curtains, and four theme signs to create a puppet theatre, doll house, drive-thru, and lemonade stand. From helping in the kitchen to putting on a show, children’s imaginations are sparked with The Learning Tower and The Playhouse Kit.
Little Partners, Inc. is a company dedicated to the nurture of the child. Its mission is to affirm the child’s positive self image through strengthening the essential partnership between the child and the adult.
For more information about Little Partners visit their website at www.littlepartners.com.
Press Release:
LITTLE PARTNERS, INC. REACHES FOR (AND TOUCHES) THE SKY!
Little Partner Receives A 2007 NAPPA Parenting Resources Honor
Shreveport, LA – Little Partners, Inc. has climbed onto its popular children’s item, The Learning Tower and (after helping mommy clean the veggies) reached upward to grab a prestigious 2007 NAPPA Parenting Resources Honor.
Here is why The Learning Tower was awarded a 2007 NAPPA Parenting Resources Honor:
The Learning Tower
Category/Age Group: Toddlers
Price: $169.95
“Part step stool and part funhouse, this sturdy birch platform adjusts to allow kids ages 2 to 6 to stand at a counter or table and be protected on all four sides so they don’t fall. Enabling parents to keep a child safely nearby kids while working in the kitchen, it provides endless opportunities for teachable moments. The tower’s safe and playful design encourages kids to climb into it by themselves. It doesn’t tip over and can even inspire imaginative play as a fort or puppet theater.”
The Learning Tower received a 2007 NAPPA Parenting Resources Honor in the “Preschool” category. Now in its 16th year, NAPPA is the most comprehensive awards program for Children’s Products and Parenting Resources. Its independent panel of judges are experts in their fields with extensive professional experience working with children and parents. They evaluate hundreds of products to select the most fun, appealing, safe, educational, age-appropriate and enduring products so that parents can make the best purchasing choices for their families.
NAPPA’s panel of judges are all experts in evaluating and writing about their specific categories of children’s products. They have direct experience working with children, so they know what kids like. They recognize the qualities that make a good product truly stand out from the crowd.
The NAPPA seal lets parents know that they can expect a high quality, well-designed, developmentally nurturing and expert-approved product. Past winners include products from Fisher-Price, Lego, Scholastic and Sony, as well as dozens of independent manufacturers.
Little Partners, Inc. is a company dedicated to the nurturing of children. Its primary product, The Learning Tower, was invented in 1992 by the company’s President/CEO, Carol Gamble in response to her own daughter’s need for a safe, stable stepstool to help in the kitchen and other activities. In addition to its primary purpose as a step-up, The Learning Tower can easily be converted into a magically fun playhouse with the 2007 introduction of The Playhouse Kit. This adorable accessory set includes an easily-attachable roof, red curtains, and four theme signs to create a puppet theatre, doll house, drive-thru, and lemonade stand.
For information, visit http://www.littlepartners.com/
We just got a question on the weight limit or capacity on the Kitchen Helper.
While the manufacturer posts no specified weight limit, I did do some informal testing. I stood on it. I weigh 225 lbs. The platform flexed a little, but that was it, so I’m sure it can hold more. I hope everybody expects to put less than 225 lbs. on their Kitchen Helper.
Here’s a blog that I ran across that featured The Learning Tower in one of it’s posts. It’s a great blog about Amy’s experiences in parenthood, and some other things. I love this type of blog!!
Here’s an excerpt:
“We found the coolest toddler product ever invented! It’s called The Learning Tower. Anna so badly wants to be involved with what’s going on in the kitchen, or at least see what’s going on up on the counter. She started climbing the tall chairs at the counter, and we were beginning to worry that she might fall and hurt herself.” Read More
Buy The Learning Tower by little Partners at HeirloomWoodenToys.com
I just ran across this site which discusses our very issue. They had a very real world incident where a child was using the wrong thing to stand on, and fell and got hurt. This site covers a whole host of child safety issues as well. Check them out: Children’s Safety
