what does your 3 year old sit on?

[elliott]

ds1 has been using a wooden 'high' chair from ikea - an open chair that sits straight at the table - very happily for ages, but he is really a bit big for it now. He can cope on a normal chair fine if we are out, but has to kneel to be the right height for the table, and I don't think that's very comfortable on a daily basis.
What do other people do for the transition from baby to adult chairs? Am I going to have to swallow my pride and get a tripp trapp after all? What about the Handysitt - will he soon be too big for that too?

DS2 (3.75) uses the Ikea wooden step stool.

normal chair

she sits on her bottom...........

how about a cushion? would that be enough?

My dd (3.5) sits on a dinign room chair and has since she was about 18 mo IIRC, but i think our chairs are quite high. She also has a little table and chairs that the baby (19mo) also sits at. If yr DS quite small? How about a booster seat (pick up for peanuts 2nd hand, surely?), depending on the size of the child they can go for ages.
HTH

Mine have sat in this after coming out of their high chair but before sitting on a normal chair. We use it without the tray so you can push it right up to the table.

HTH

BEKVÄM, is the name of the stool and it's £8.

Mine sits on a step/stall(on top of the chair, of course) that he used to use for the toilet.

Ours is a wooden home made thing that DH used to use when he was tiny but you can the the plastic step up things for a few pound.

normal chair, was deeply offended when some friends offered her the booster seat thing their (older) child uses when we were there for lunch.

ds was still using a booster seat on dining chair which we'd had from about 18 months - It was a Tomy one with foldable tray (never used, too flimsy!) and you could use it at 2 heights wwth a back or one all folded together. It was a previous version of this one . dd has never used it though and sits happily on her Tripp Trapp or a normal chair if we are out.

Thanks for the suggestions. I can see that lots of kids just use a normal chair, but even with a cushion ds1 really needs to kneel and he just looks fidgety and uncomfortable. He is nearly 3 and smaller than average (but not a complete midget!). Stickynote we use the plastic booster for ds2 (11 months) and I can't wait to put it away, its so ugly! - so I want him to go into ds1's chair (an IKEA Gulliver) hence need to sort ds1 out. Soupdragon, that stool looks promising and much cheaper than a tripp trapp....(which I always used to smugly slag off but now I wish we had them as they would be the perfect solution!)

oops, that doesn't really get you there . Go to Baby Equipment/Feeding/Sit Me Up chair. Ours was plastic but seems to be wooden now.

His Tripp Trapp chair set to his new height.

What about something like this ?

Mine decided she was too big for a high chair at about 22 months and has been sitting on a regular chair ever since. She does have to kneel to reach the table, but it doesn't seem to bother her.

Just a normal dining chair. My 2 year old does too.

Don't get me wrong - they don't exactly sit still though!!

GG is right, there isn't much sitting still involved (or much eating either, in my daughter's case). If you feel strongly about your child sitting at the table for the whole meal then you might want to try something else.

Oh yes KATG - there's the eating too, ds1 is HOPELESS!!

my 3 year old DS (also small) does a mixture of his tripp trapp chair, ordinary chair, and bench at same height as normal chairs (he looks most comforatble on the tripp trapp). As with others - there isn't always a lot of sitting involved .

Handysitt!!! It's fab - can't sing its praises enough - ds1 has been in it since he was 8 months old and he's now 3 and still uses it -and you can take it out and about. We're just about to buy another one for ds2. Wouldn't be without it!

dot1 have been thinking about a handysitt but wondered if it would be outgrown too quickly...so its useful to know your ds1 is still using it.

Her brother mostly

chair

Hate to tell you this elliot, but we do the T/Trap for our (small) 3.5 yr old, and the plastic booster thing for the 2 yr old, and it works well. Those plastic seats are hideous aren't they! I can't wait to get rid of mine either...

My DD (2y7m) uses her TT at home, but at other places or when eating out she just uses a normal chiar - sometimes kneeling up, somethimes with a cushion.

Oops, that's told me then!