Kids want to participate in family life. You might remember back to your own resistance to helping out around the house and think that kids actually want to avoid helping out. But you’re remembering life when you were older. Toddlers are very enthusiastic about helping. (And older kids can be, too. It just takes the right kind of direction. It’s something we struggle with at home, but when it works, it’s magic.)
If you have just one child so far, they’re very focused on what you’re doing, and they want to do it, too. To them, the things you do in your daily life are not “grown up” things, they’re human tasks. They are watching everything you do to see how you do it, and remembering it for themselves. Naturally they want to try it out for themselves, either as play or “for real.”
The beauty of the Learning Tower is that it takes away one huge barrier to participating right alongside you. Size. It’s not your kid’s fault they’re too small to reach a countertop. And it’s not your fault you don’t want to do your chopping and cooking sitting cross-legged on the floor.
When you have more children, or if you already have a couple, this issue will continue but there’ll be one more part of it. In addition to copying you, your kids will be passionate about copying their older sibling or siblings. Because it fits more than one child at a time, the learning tower is a perfect spot for younger children to get up and work right alongside your older children. Or they can be up at the counter level next to a child who is big enough to stand on their own.
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