The most important and hard-and-fast rule about when to stop putting Baby<\/span> in a high chair for their<\/span> meals is that it needs to happen before they reaches<\/span> the size and weight limits for their<\/span> high chair. Beyond that, it gets murkier, though. Once Baby<\/span> starts to have strong neck and trunk control, there\u2019s no physical reason they needs<\/span> to stay in a high chair, but there are still practical reasons. For one thing, from a high chair, there\u2019s no way Baby<\/span> can run away halfway through the meal, and though it doesn\u2019t always succeed, a high chair is often an attempt to limit the blast radius from dinnertime with especially messy eaters.<\/p>\n On the other hand Baby<\/span> may start hinting that they would<\/span> like to start eating their<\/span> meals at the table with the rest of the family. Since that\u2019s the eventual goal for most families, it can be a good idea to take advantage of the time when it\u2019s what Baby<\/span> wants to do, before they has<\/span> the chance to grow into a threenager who\u2019s too cool for school – er, family dinners.<\/p>\n Most children move out of high chairs (often into booster seats) some time between the ages of 1 and 3, but that range of ages is so large because it really has more to do with Baby<\/span>\u2019s individual level of maturity, and what you are comfortable with, than it does with their<\/span> age.<\/p>\n Remember, like just about everything else when it comes to Baby<\/span>, there’s nothing set in stone about when to move away from the high chair. It all depends on Baby<\/span> and you, and whatever decision you make is the right one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The high chair may be a fixture in your kitchen or dining room today, but before you know it, {{ PRONOUN_BABY }} will be ready to squirm off of the adult-sized chairs when {{ PRONOUN_HE_SHE_LOWER }} is avoiding dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235639,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ovia_author_name":"","ovia_author_prefix":"","ovia_author_image":"","ovia_content_type_id":"177","ovia_product_mode":"13","ovia_days_from_signup":"","ovia_days_from_lmp":"","ovia_days_from_baby_birth":"477","ovia_days_from_enroll":"","ovia_health_module_days_from":"","ovia_article_for_email_days_from":"477","ovia_health_module":"","ovia_legacy_id2":"","ovia_ttc":"","ovia_article_subtype":"slideshow","ovia_health_symptom":"","ovia_partner_id":"","ovia_partner_custom_group":"","ovia_legacy_category":"15","ovia_legacy_category2":"240","ovia_content_url_id":"101126","ovia_include_share_buttons":"","ovia_fertility_goal":"","ovia_secondary_module":"","ovia_trimester":"","ovia_child_age":"","ovia_share_image":"","ovia_more_menu_image":"","ovia_button1_url":"","ovia_days_from_postpartum":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"fert-category":[],"preg-category":[],"parent-category":[96,134,113,110,112,93,105,129],"fert-tag":[],"preg-tag":[],"parent-tag":[486],"class_list":["post-101126","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","parent-category-baby-feeding","parent-category-baby-gear","parent-category-baby-milestones","parent-category-baby-nutrition-and-eating","parent-category-babys-development-and-growth","parent-category-babys-first-year","parent-category-babys-health-and-wellness","parent-category-life-as-a-new-parent","parent-tag-high-chairs"],"yoast_head":"\nSigns it might be time to make the switch<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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