Booster seat vs high chair

vicky7139 · September 2013

When did everyone transition their toddler to a booster seat rather than a high chair at the table...just curious.

mommymegan831 · September 2013

around a year

NerdyMama2 · September 2013

We're still in the high chair!

oliversmommy32912 · September 2013

We tried a booster in a restaurant the other day and it was a disaster. At home we use a high chair because he isn't tall enough to reach the table in the booster we have.

vrj0522 · September 2013

We still use a high chair.

jnnfrrose6 · September 2013

We have one of those booster/high chair combos that just straps onto your own chair. Before we moved into our house, we used the tray because we rarely actually all sat at our table for dinner. Since we moved about 2 weeks ago, we haven't used the tray and LO just gets pushed right up to the table with us. It has straps to hold him in, be we don't use them at this point. It's nice to all sit down together for a family meal finally! We do still use highchairs at restaurants since those boosters don't get strapped to the chairs and he's too wiggly for that.

controlledchaos617 · September 2013

What kind of high chair do you all have? I am trying to find another one to buy for my almost 1yr old DD that I can take to other people's homes.

tbmadeamistake · September 2013

I also have the highchair that can double as a booster, the seats pops off the base and has straps to attach to a regular chair. It's a Graco. We started using it as a booster, with the straps, about a month ago (15 months), mainly because at daycare she sits at a little table without a tray, and she started getting really fussy and not eating if we used the tray.

@controlledchaos617, I also bought a Regalo portable booster seat. It's $15 on amazon and is wonderful. Light weight, folds nice and tiny into it's carry bag, and super easy to throw in the car. She loves it and it's much easier than lugging our bigger booster around with us.

SusieBW · September 2013

LalaMama81 said:

We've always used a booster seat type chair on our regular dining chairs. We stopped using the attached tray around 18 months I think, maybe sooner.

This.

baloneydisc · September 2013

We still use the highchair. I took the tray off and just pushed her up to the table around 16mo. She's too wiggly for just a booster, though I think she's getting close.

sunnyday016 · September 2013

Around 10m. We stopped using the attached tray a few months ago.

sunnyday016 · September 2013

Starbuck128 said:

We switched to a Kaboost portable chair booster full time at 18 months. It sits under the chair legs and raises the whole chair, and he sits in the seat just like an adult. It isn't a booster seat.

If my son were on the regular chair, he would climb onto the table!