Comments on: Montessori materials for a 9 month old

By: Alenka

Alenka — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:11:55 +0000

Karen, it took me a while to dig the posts out of the storage and finally take a picture for you. I hope it is not too late. It can be found in the body of the article: Illustration of the Pull Up Bar for the most adorable pulley in your house.

By: karen adelberg

karen adelberg — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:53:11 +0000

I love your ideas and the fact your 7 month old is walking! My 6.5 month old is crawling and pulling himself up but we don’t have much that’s safe for this. I like your idea of a homemade bar, do you still have it that you could send me a picture? My husband is very visible and not a handyman, I sure don’t want to spend $200 on the Michael Olaf one… Thank you!

By: Alenka

Alenka — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:38:34 +0000

Interesting idea! I haven’t seen those before, but I’ll definitely check it out! I just bought three swiffer mops and put together for everyone: the biggest for myself, just a few parts of the handle for the older one and just two parts of the handle for the one year old. Most of the time this arrangement works for everyone. Sometimes my little one revolts and demands great rights – and a greater mop… then I am the one with a tiny mop, and my persistent Mr. Smiles is pushing a long handle in front of him.

By: Homeschooler

Homeschooler — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:07:45 +0000

LOL!!! Actually, I meant that the yarn-style toilet brushes look almost exactly like a mop for a little person! I agree. Let’s keep the toilet cleaning to grown-ups!

By: Alenka

Alenka — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:50:55 +0000

Toilet brush – that’s an interesting idea! While I love how much my little ones are involved in the house work (it is hard to describe how much they cherish vacuum cleaning, unloading the dishwasher, loading and sorting laundry, washing the floors, etc. – pure fun for them!) – I am not completely comfortable with a 1 year old and a 4 year old scrubbing the toilet. I am a bit worried that scrubbing will turn into bathing waaaay too quickly.

We do have a toy plunge and they are allowed to use it in a bathtub or a sink, but we have a deal that they have to grow up a little more to be able to dunk it in a toilet.

Nevertheless some things are unavoidable: just the other week my four year old locked himself in a bathroom and… happily washed the floor with a toilet brush. It’s not like he doesn’t know what he should use for washing the floors (he has his own belowed mop) or what is toilet brush for… but combining the two probably seemed like an attractive idea at the moment.

So, for now, we keep the toilet cleaning job to ourselves (and I guess by the time they’ll be old enough to do it, they wouldn’t be interested… not fair, isn’t it?).

By: Homeschooler

Homeschooler — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:59:23 +0000

Excellent article! It gave me some ideas I will be using right away with my boys.

You mentioned getting a mop for your 10-month-old. What about buying a toilet brush? Not one with the stiff bristles, but one that has soft yarn-like material. It’s just a thought, since I understand that time is often the most valuable resource!