The three heights are not a feature. They are how the rail stays at their chest instead of slipping down to their waist.
I have had the message. "They grew out of it at two and a half, what is the next tower?" Often the platform had never moved. The child got taller, the rail stayed, and suddenly they were leaning over the thing that was supposed to hold them in. That is the moment people think the tower is finished. Usually it is the moment to drop the step.
You lower the platform. You do not buy a second tower for a few centimetres.
What you are actually changing
On the Toddler Tower they stand inside, and the rail is around the upper part. The platform is the floor under their feet. Higher: a smaller child still has the rail at the chest and can reach your counter without standing on their toes. Lower: a taller child is not folded in half, and the rail has not become something they can tip across. There are three settings. Move one when you notice them hunching, or when you catch yourself thinking the rail is decorative.
The shape is a trapezoid, wider on the floor. Two openings lighten it and give them a hold while they climb in. Birch plywood, water-based paint, seven colours so it can disappear into the kitchen. The limit is 70 kg. The age we give is 1.5 to 3. Tested to EN71, ASTM and CPSIA.
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✓Watch the rail, not the birthdayIf it sits at the chest, leave it. If it sits at the waist, lower the platform before you shop for a bigger one.
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✓One step at a timeYou will know within a day of cooking together whether the new height is right. They either reach comfortably or they are on their toes again.
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✓The height does not change the rulesStill against the counter before they climb in. Still not dragged with a child inside. Still off the hob. A higher step does not make a two-year-old ready for the cooker.
The tower is finished when they no longer need the rail. They climb up, stand, turn, and do not look for a side to hold. For many children that is around three. A stool, or a chair they pull over, is then the honest next thing. How I think about the stool is here.
Two children at once is a different problem, and no height setting solves it. One tower is one standing place. The Buddy is the one built for two. A second child behind the first is how someone falls, not how you share.
You see them lean over the rail to reach the bowl, or the rail is somewhere around their stomach. That is the shirt-holding problem coming back, inside the tower. Drop a setting.
A new tower with the platform left in the first hole will "end" just as fast. The years are in the adjustment, not in buying again. 1.5 to 3, 70 kg, three heights. That is the span we designed.
Lower the step. Keep the tower.
Three heights, so the rail grows with them instead of being left behind.
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