Postpartum Tuesday: Foldable Pikler Triangle
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The Pikler Triangle is associated with the Montessori philosophy because it teaches kids independent play, learning boundaries, and problem solving. It was created by Dr. Emmi Pikler, who was a Hungarian pediatrician.
Children are supposed to be able to have free rein over the triangle to learn how high they feel comfortable climbing and figure out how to get down or unstuck without parental intervention.
If you have space for it, I recommend it, especially if you have limited outdoor space or the kids’ gyms don’t reopen. This particular one is foldable, comes in various sizes, and has an additional ramp.
At $265, it’s an investment, but there are also tutorials online for you to try and DIY! It’s available at radchildrensfurniture.com. Foldable Pikler Triangle
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Pikler triangles are “associated” with Montessori because parenting bloggers are determined to conflate everything involving wooden toys, but the Montessori Method is not the same as Pikler’s philosophy, which her student Magda Gerber developed into RIE/Educaring.
That being said I think the triangles are super cool! I would see if you can borrow one to try it before putting down money, because Mini Lana did not take to it at all, and I was the third or fourth person to borrow this particular friend’s triangle in a row without being able to interest her child in it. *sniff*
Hi – DLC made a comment the other day that “Here in DC there is a FB group for artists and performers who babysit or nanny on the side.” I was wondering if you’d share the name of the group? We’re in DC and doing split shifts for the foreseeable future but could definitely use some flexible help and always interested in supporting the artist/performer community in our city.
Like many heterosexual couples, my husband and I have fallen into a gendered division when it comes to the mental load. I’ve long resigned myself that I am primarily the one who keeps the list going on what we need to make our household work, and I assign things out.
Last night, my husband told me that he thinks he takes on more “emotional labor” because he listens to me talk about work daily. To be clear, it’s mostly me telling him a combination of what cases I’m working on, office gossip, etc. It’s not because I need advice: it’s more like I spend 8 hours/day working, and I want to share what happened in my day. It’s normally about 30 minutes of conversation.
I’m upset and hurt, and I don’t know how to explain to him that “emotional labor” isn’t listening to your spouse tell you about their day (unless it is, and I’m wrong?). Any resources?
For sure. My post should have made clear: I’m not arguing that my mental load (eg finding a nanny, scheduling doctors appointments, etc) is the same as emotional labor. It’s more that it made his comment about his emotional load especially rankle and get under my skin.
My husband and I talk about work a lot. If he said this I’d be annoyed too.
A kid at our daycare tested positive this week. The whole class is quarantined and the teachers will be getting tests, they reported to the health department and are following all recommendations regarding cleaning, etc. We talked about it a bit, and decided to continue sending our kids (who are not in the affected classes). We’re in a southern state with rapidly rising numbers. I’m an employment lawyer, so I have been walking people through employees testing positive for months, but this is the first one to affect me personally. I hate that I am putting my kids at risk and I hate that this is happening and I hate all the people who are not doing their part to help. Thank you for letting me vent. I am having a moment.
My kid has been back in daycare for 2 weeks and we’ve already managed to lose several of her masks. As if I needed more sh!t to keep track of. I have torn apart the car, the house, and her bedroom looking for them. No dice. They’re not at daycare, either, so I haven’t a clue where they might be because we don’t go anywhere!
OK, now that I have that rant out of the way: Has anyone had good luck with the multipacks that major retailers are offering, like Old Navy or Crayola? The lost masks were $10 a pop on etsy, which adds up fast. Both of my kids will need them for school this fall, so I’d like to get a handle on this soon.
Does anyone here read Ask a Manager? She addressed a question about someone feeling uncomfortable asking other people to wear their masks, correctly, etc, and included this passage, which I thought was FASCINATING:
I often think that I benefitted tremendously from an activism job I had in my 20s, where part of my job was literally to make scenes. To call attention to animal abuse, I disrupted large events by standing on chairs, shouting, and unfurling massive banners; I crashed private events dressed as a giant chicken; I tossed pies; I went naked in “rather go naked than wear fur” protests. Before every single one of these, I secretly panicked and felt like I was going to have a heart attack. It’s scary to deliberately disrupt the social contract! We’ve been trained since childhood not to do it, and it took a lot of mental work to force myself to overcome all those instincts to Not Make A Scene. But doing it got me comfortable with causing a public spectacle — and as a result, “would you mind moving six feet back?” seems a lot easier.
I asked this question on the main page, but looking for all help on this one.
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for the pregnant moms yesterday. i just wanted to share that one of my best friends who is a pediatrician started her older son back in daycare when it reopened and has a 1 month old at home. her risk tolerance might be a bit different, since she was working up until her due date, and she did not have to choose whether to send her son prior to the baby being born, since school closed down. i know this is just one person and one data point, but thought i would share if anyone finds it helpful to hear what a pediatrician is actually doing. just to note – she is not in an area that was a hot spot or is now a hot spot
I am going for a walk in a few minutes because I need a break. My younger kid has been in daycare for a total of 7 days over the last three weeks (we have him in part-time) and he has a low fever today, which is stressing me out. Nurses say it’s probably just a (not-corona)virus, but he and his brother are home until we know more.
Plus, someone I mentor didn’t get an opportunity that she worked really hard for. Someone we know (with little kids) died unexpectedly (not COVID). Police killings of black men are crushing me. I have two little boys, and I cannot imagine that pain and struggle of worrying that my kids will be killed just for how they look. It’s unfair that moms have to deal with that on top of the typical worry and pain of motherhood. Right now is a lot. I am sad and I wanted to tell people.
Huge fan of the pikler triangle , got mine from https://Montessoriclimber.com
We have a baby boy and 2 years ago my wife and me ordered a pikler triangle because we knew that the Montessori education is as important as school education. But the pikler triangle we have is not foldable and covers a lot of space. we are now planning to buy another one which is foldable and we can easily pack it if anytime we move to another city.
I have ordered the Foldable Pikler Triangle for my baby and I am in love with this toy as this is a very handy toy and you can store it easily as it has the folding option. This is the best option for an indoor toy If you have little space. Read More details here: https://piklertriangle.info/