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The last few years have seen the emergence of a new category of furniture, termed as ‘children’s furniture.’ For the most part, this is furniture that is meant to be used in children rooms at home and in classrooms. As we all know, the furniture that is meant for use by adults is often rather uncomfortable, and sometimes even risky, for kid’s use. A kid using an adult chair, for instance, is likely to have difficulties hoisting herself to the seating part – especially where we are looking for something like a kid who is below five years of age or so. Even where an adult is present to hoist the kid to the chair, there is a risk of the kid attempting to jump from the chair unaided at some point, in the process ending up sustaining serious injuries.

It is that need to take care of kid’s needs in furniture design, then, that led to creation of that category of what has come to be known as children’s furniture or kids furniture. It is a furniture niche that has experienced a lot of growth in the ensuing years, so that we end up with a situation where today, we even have stores that deal exclusively in children’s furniture and manage to stay in business.

It is also from such a background that many parents and guardians find themselves shopping for children’s furniture, and asking themselves what makes excellent children’s furniture (so that they can make excellent buy decisions).

So what, indeed, goes into the making of excellent children’s furniture?
Well, the most vital thing that goes into the making of excellent children’s furniture is, arguably, resilience. Excellent children’s furniture should be able to withstand the inevitable knocking and pulling it will be subjected to by its youthful users. If you buy the sort of furniture that is very sensitive to knocking and pulling, the sort of furniture that falls apart on first instance of being subjected to such knocking and pulling, then you have only yourself to blame for having to replace it within what may seem to be a very small duration of usage.

Excellent children’s furniture should be comfortable for use by the intended users. Here we are looking at things like ‘height comfort’ (so that the kids don’t have to struggle too much to hoist themselves onto the said pieces of furniture), as well as things like adequate padding for the furniture.

Excellent children’s furniture should be made with lots of safety features. Here we are looking at things like conveniently placed ladders as well as ‘scaffolding features’ – those sorts of rails that are placed along things like beds to keep kids using them from rolling over and sustaining serious injuries.

Excellent children’s furniture should be aesthetically appealing. The thought here is to make the kids come to like the furniture, own it, and subsequently take proper care of it (if they are ancient enough to).

When buying children’s furniture, it is vital to go for designs that delight in near universal appeal; so that when the kids you bought it for are grown up, you can have an simple time reselling it to other people who might have young kids at that point.

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Fine Motor Skills is the ability to control small precise movements with the fingers, wrists and hands. These skills are vital for day to day activities in life. They also play a very vital role in the school activities. A child’s handwriting skills depend on the child’s fine motor skills. There are lots of activities you can do to improve your child’s fine motor skills.

It’s not a excellent thought to get a child to practice handwriting until we expose the child to writing some straight lines and curves etc.

There are many activities you can expose your children to – A lot of activities are fun and also help in developing fine motor skills…..There are basically three kinds of activities which will help to develop your child’s fine motor skills:

Grasping – example: using pencils, crayons, brushes etc

Manipulating – example: scissors, kneading, picking etc

Hand-eye co-ordination – example: writing, cutting, threading etc

Here are a few activities that can improve your child’s fine motor skills:

Playing with play-dough

Using scissors to cut lots and lots of paper. Make sure the kids don’t use the adult scissors but use the safety scissors.

Picking beads or other tiny objects using tweezers.

Finger painting

Stack objects – cards, coins, blocks etc

Connect the dot puzzles

Drawing and scribbling

Beading activities

Doing puzzles

Any activity which isolates finger activity – example playing a piano or typing

Kneading dough, mixing cake batter – get them to help with your cooking…

The best age to teach excellent handwriting skills to your children is between 3 and 10. Practicing handwriting can often be hard and dull for the child. Take it slow and do it the right way. Get them to practice the fine motor skills first and then go to the alphabets. Also make sure that the pencil grip is right.

Excellent posture is vital and plays a key role in handwriting skills. Terrible posture makes stress on young spines. Here are some tips to get that perfect posture for your child:

Make sure your child has her own table and chair for writing purposes (height has to be adjusted as per the child’s height).

Feet have to be flat on the floor or on a foot rest.

The child’s back has to be supported by chair. The child’s bottom has to be pushed into the back pocket of his/her chair.

Head has to balanced on top of shoulders – should not tilt sideways or lean forwards.

Its not excellent to have too much strain on their shoulders (bending too much sideways to write)

One general tip when they are walking is -

A lowered chin means your neck muscles are carrying the weight and the strain will flow right down the neck and down the back. So now slouching….

Here are some tips for right posture when your child is working on the computer:

The computer monitor has to be at the child’s eye level. Otherwise they will strain their necks. Above eye level is not excellent at all.

The keyboard and mouse have to be slightly lower than a writing desk so that the shoulders can be relaxed.

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