Maxim has grown up enough to have his own chair. Olga and I had already scouted Jumbo for a selection of chairs, but there was nothing that we wanted to buy immediately, so we left it for laters. Today laters came.
Basically, there are just a few requirements for a good baby chair.
- Stable. It should be hard to overturn, slide, or otherwise misplace it. Maxim is gaining weight constantly and he is also getting more active. Falling from a meter or so high on the hard floor is the last thing we want for him.
- Solid. Most of the baby furniture is made of plastic these days. Plastic is easy to break. If it’s not plastic it’s either metal or wood. Metal furniture often has plastic joints which kill the whole purpose of it. Wooden furniture often looks solid, but needs to be tried and tested.
- Flexible. Baby chair is a piece of furniture that usually occupies a lot of space in all three dimensions. While at it, it should be more than just one position chair. It should either have more than position so that it could be used on both high and low levels, or it should be transforming into a low chair with a table. Or something like that.
- Cheap. We are not going to save of safety, but I don’t want to pay three digit sum just because baby furniture manufactures think that I should.
So we were all set and ready to go and find that perfect chair.
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