Cooking Gear: Little Tikes
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Realistic Kitchen for My 2 Year Old
Asked by J.P. from Chicago
on November 30, 2008
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Hi,
My husband and I are loking for a mid size kitchen for our 2 year old son. we really want one that makes all the sounds of cooking etc. We have looked at the step...
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- We have the Little Tikes Cook and Learn interactive kitchen. WONDERFUL!! It talks, sings, the fruit comes apart, the kids can crack an egg. Great kitchen. I have a...
- We love our step 2! Hours of fun for everyone!
- We got the Step2 LifeStyle PartyTime kitchen last year for our son when he was around 18 months. Now at 2-1/2 he still plays with it just about every day. It is nice a...
Best Children's Kitchen Playset ?
Asked by K.E. from Dallas
on November 8, 2010
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Hi Mamas!
This Santa's helper is looking for a great children's kitchen playset that both my 5 yr old son & 18 mo old daughter can play w/ together. One that has m...
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- This is the one we have and boys love it http://www.step2.com/product.cfm?product_id=1299 It was the plainest one I could find. I did not want one that made tons of so...
- I used to love the step 2 kitchen Lifestyle Deluxe that is green, 4' wide. The one that costs 219.99. Then a friend got the small wooden kitchen with a big stainless ...
- We have one from Step 2. It's great. We got it when my daughter was 1.5. She (now 5) and my son (3) still play with it on a regular basis, in fact we just moved to Lon...
Play Kitchens
Asked by J.V. from Chicago
on February 1, 2010
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OK ladies, I want to buy my daughter a kitchen for her 2nd bday. I'm willing to spend up to 250, if it's a truly solid, wood product. I'm toying with buying her the ...
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- I did a lot of research and we got my 2 year old son the Kidkraft Let's Cook kitchen for Christmas. It's great quality, very heavy and solid. He loves playing with it....
- I actually found a wood kitchen set at a garage sale. It is a fridge and sink - 2 separate pieces. Both of my children love it, and play with it all the time. You m...
- Melissa & Doug has a bunch of different wooden kitchen toys. They have a wooden kitchen and wooden play food. We don't have the kitchen, but we have some of the play...
Disciplining a 20 Month Old
Asked by J.C. from Chicago
on January 21, 2009
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My 20 month old daughter pushes our kitchen chairs all across the kitchen. I swear my chairs have more miles than my car. She gets on top of the counters and she is ...
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- Can you give her a time out in her crib? My little one won't stay in a time out, so this is where he goes. He hates it and knows now when I tell him to stop or he's ...
- We started disciplining our daughter at around 18 months, because she kept flinging her plate off the table when she didn't want to eat or if she just thought it would...
- She will not stop until you establish the rules with her and use a punishment that will mean something to her when she breaks those rules. She's more than old enough ...
Activities and Things Your 15 Month Old Loves to Do
Asked by K.P. from Seattle
on June 2, 2011
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My son and I need more variety with activities. He is very active, always running around and moving, and has been walking since 8 months old, and can climb on anything...
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- Some favorites: Water table (can also serve as sand or dried bean table in cooler weather), hide and seek (toddler version), indoor obstacle course, dancing to favori...
- Take hime to a home improvement store like Home Depot or Lowes. You'll have to watch out for carts and fork lifts (but they are usually good about blocking off the pa...
- Mine is 17 months and these are some of the things we do- Practice throwing balls. I like the bouncy ones you can find at the grocery store. Get some hula hoops...
Indoor Activities
Asked by M.C. from Detroit
on January 7, 2009
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Can anyone recommend indoor activities for a 19 month old during these cold winter months?
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- Making tents out of blankets draped over the kitchen/dining room table will offer lots of fun. I also filled a dishtub or jellyroll pan with baking flour and let the ...
- What about good old fashioned stuff like crayons, painting, playdoh. My boys like to have me help them make camps and have "picnics" in them. You can do basic baking w...
- We bought one of those Little Tikes jumpies in the summer. Turns out is great for indoors in the winter too if you have the room. We put ours up in the basement and t...
What Do You Do with Your Kids for "Family Time"
Asked by M.!. from Columbus
on February 9, 2011
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We have a 5 year old, almost 4 year old, and a 3 month old and my husband is only home on the weekends. Since it is winter and we all have cabin fever we have been tr...
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- Everone has such good ideas! I have to add our new hobby - geocaching! It's basically treasure hunting with a gps - very fun :-) We have a 5 yr. old, 3 yr. old, & 6 mo...
- You can make your own pizzas at home. Let the kids put the toppings on their own pizzas (personal size!). Then, play a game or watch a movie together. My kids love thi...
- We play a lot of hide and seek. We cook and bake together. We play basketball (small ball and hoop in the basement). We go for walks. We go outside and jump on the...
Strange Things in Strange Places...
Asked by E.D. from Seattle
on August 21, 2010
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So. Tonight I am searching in my underwear drawer for my one pair of "sexy" underwear(I think my grandmother would approve, but they're as good as it's gonna get) and...
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- Searched high and low for DH's car keys and finally found them in the "ignition" of my boys Little Tikes car. Perfectly reasonable place for a kid!
- My husbands keys were MIA for months!! We asked our then 3 year old and he said "I don't know" like he answers most questions...Anyway, we finally found them when we ...
- My son has a little blanky that he must take with him everywhere...so of course it gets lost constantly and pops up in th strangest places. My favorite was when I foun...
Toys for a One Year Old
Asked by B.C. from New York
on December 16, 2008
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First time mom here needs some help on ideas for appropriate toys for a 1 year old! Wondering what your child's favorite toy was at age 1. We try to stay towards natu...
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- My daughters are now preteens, but some of the best toys that I can remember are... blocks.. I had plastic ones in different colors. At first I would stack them up...
- well, this would counter your non plastic catagory, but we had a drawer in the kitchen with measure cups and bowls and cooking utinsels that the child could not get hu...
- I am having so much fun buying cool toys for my son- who is turning 1 in two weeks! Right now, he is really into: -musical instruments (we just got him band in a b...
Bored at Home with a 14 Month Old
Asked by M.C. from La Crosse
on June 9, 2009
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Hi, moms! I'm a SAHM with a 14 month old son. My husband and I share 1 car. He works a lot, so he normally has the car. His shifts are either beginning or ending w...
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- Has your husband thought about using public transportation to get to work? That would leave you the car.
- Are you near the city bus line? Can you arrange "play dates" with other children his age? Can you bake, clean house, weed gardens, etc., for someone else, in exchange ...
- I'd look for a moms' group in your area--many times they have stuff going on in your own neighborhood! (We live in a huge metro area, and even our MOMS club chapter ha...
