I LOVE Katy Bowman AND this article!
I've been wanting to get rid of our mission set sofa/chair for some time now and this might just be the fire under my butt that I needed!
This article would also complement the diastasis recti/pelvic organ prolapse thread we have going (I'll put it there, too.)
I never really thought about strollers and how detrimental they can be to children! Duh! My kids haven't really utilized ours very much - I tend to bring it for really long trips like our 12 mile hikes or 6 hour trips to Longwood but mostly just for carrying all of our stuff like stainless Kanteens, food, camera, extra clothing, etc. Plus, such a bnefit to parents to carry their kids rather than push them in the stroller.
I'm totally putting monkey bars somewhere in our house! My kids (and all kids, I suppose) are naturally active and I find myself constantly saying things like, "Don't bounce on the couch!" - "Don't jump off the couch!" etc, etc. It's not healthy for me, or DH, to sit on the couch or chair, or whatever, so why don't I just get rid of them??
The coffee-table-as-desk with floor pillow is totally doable, but adapting to eating meals that way seems so much more....out there. We don't spend that much time at the table eating meals, so maybe I won't worry about it. I would like to have a low coffee table for drawing/games/Legos, etc with floor pillows so that they gravitate towards that rather then the kitchen or dining table. And, I've been wondering for a long time now why we need both a kitchen table AND a dining room table... It's just that our kitchen nook would look weird without a table and a dining room table wouldn't fit in the kitchen. To be honest, we don't all comfortably fit at our kitchen table anyway.
I've been wanting to get rid of our mission set sofa/chair for some time now and this might just be the fire under my butt that I needed!
This article would also complement the diastasis recti/pelvic organ prolapse thread we have going (I'll put it there, too.)
I never really thought about strollers and how detrimental they can be to children! Duh! My kids haven't really utilized ours very much - I tend to bring it for really long trips like our 12 mile hikes or 6 hour trips to Longwood but mostly just for carrying all of our stuff like stainless Kanteens, food, camera, extra clothing, etc. Plus, such a bnefit to parents to carry their kids rather than push them in the stroller.
I'm totally putting monkey bars somewhere in our house! My kids (and all kids, I suppose) are naturally active and I find myself constantly saying things like, "Don't bounce on the couch!" - "Don't jump off the couch!" etc, etc. It's not healthy for me, or DH, to sit on the couch or chair, or whatever, so why don't I just get rid of them??
The coffee-table-as-desk with floor pillow is totally doable, but adapting to eating meals that way seems so much more....out there. We don't spend that much time at the table eating meals, so maybe I won't worry about it. I would like to have a low coffee table for drawing/games/Legos, etc with floor pillows so that they gravitate towards that rather then the kitchen or dining table. And, I've been wondering for a long time now why we need both a kitchen table AND a dining room table... It's just that our kitchen nook would look weird without a table and a dining room table wouldn't fit in the kitchen. To be honest, we don't all comfortably fit at our kitchen table anyway.