Question For Those Who Have Separate/Designated Play Area...

[SilverSabre25]

Timely post, I've been wondering about this myself, in reshaping my daycare room/plotting my future switch in focus. I'm thinking I'll try to get one of those gliders that looks like an armchair, for circle time and just chilling while the kiddos play.

[Patches]

I have a loveseat and 2 gliders. I would like to get rid of the love seat because it takes up so much space (something I don't have a lot of) but it doubles as my desk. I always do my paperwork there

[melilley]

I think I will be doing a combination of both sitting on the floor with them and sitting on something off the floor. I love being at their level but I can't sit for very long due to arthritis. I'm debating on getting a glider in case I have any infants vs. going with a small sofa that could be used for special movie days. (if I decide to put a tv down there) I'm just not sure if I want to take up that much space with a piece of furniture. I've never been very good with designing anything. I know what I like, I just can't seem to put it all together.

It does get uncomfortable sitting on the floor, I couldn't imagine having to do it with arthritis, not to mention constantly getting up and down (I have a rambunctious 18 mo. old). I'm with you on the designing thing-I have great ideas, but when they are put together, well, it doesn't look so great..
A glider sounds great, they're comfortable and aren't very big!

[MamaBearCanada]

I have 2 couches that the kids are allowed to read/relax on but not play on and I use cushions or a beanbag when I sit on the floor. Gives me some back support but allows me to be at their level.

[snbauser]

I have several different seats depending on what I am doing and where I am. I can sit on my couch and see the kids when they are playing because we have an open floor plan. For circle time or when I am reading to the kids I usually sit on a teachers cube similar to this except mine is multi-colored http://www.kaplanco.com/store/trans/...22|0&PID=70061. When I am sitting on the floor I sit in a backjack chair because I have a bad back - http://www.kaplanco.com/store/trans/...%7C0&PID=85305 . Sometimes I sit in the kids chairs at the table and sometimes I bring over the teachers cube. I also have this if I want to sit higher up in the classroom - http://www.kaplanco.com/store/trans/...1|0&PID=39699P Not sure if mine is that height but it is a teachers chair and it matches the kids chairs.

[daycarediva]

I sit at the preschool table with them for meals, snacks and activities. When doing paperwork, I sit at a teachers desk with a computer type chair.

[Blackcat31]

I guess I have never thought about this before but I don't have a personal or teacher space.

I sit at the preschool table when I eat lunch but other than sitting on the floor for activities and such, I stand all day.

I do have a file cabinet where I keep my paperwork and such but other than that, I don't have a designated space for me.

There are NO adult pieces of furniture in the whole house...not even a stool.

[nanglgrl]

I had to give a deposition regarding my late father's estate last year and I refused to take off work for it. They arranged to come to my house during nap to take the deposition after I had o.k.'d it with my clients. Picture this: a court reporter, insurance guy and 3 lawyers sitting at the child sized table in my basement. All of them with the exception if the court reporter were built like football players. The looks on their faces when they realized that was where we would be sitting were priceless.

I do my interviews at that table and often forget that "regular" sized people or tall people do not fit it as comfortably as I do.

[KnoxMom]

Bean bag chairs that match the decor!

[Texasjeepgirl]

glider rocker

[frgsonmysox]

I'm converting my office into another room for daycare and will be breaking my library couches. One in the library one in my office, plus my desk in my office too.

[itlw8]

love seat and a chair. It has been years since getting up off the floor was easy and after 2 knee replacements I can not kneel so it is harder to get up off the floor.

[WImom]

I sit on the floor during playtime. I have an desk chair and a tube type foot stool I sit on as well. Sometimes I'll sit on the little kid chairs but not for too long or my back will hurt.

[mamac]

I guess I have never thought about this before but I don't have a personal or teacher space.

I sit at the preschool table when I eat lunch but other than sitting on the floor for activities and such, I stand all day.

I do have a file cabinet where I keep my paperwork and such but other than that, I don't have a designated space for me.

There are NO adult pieces of furniture in the whole house...not even a stool.

At first I was wondering how you could manage living with no adult furniture but then I remembered you had a separate house just for daycare, right? (RIGHT?!) . ::

[mamac]

I had to give a deposition regarding my late father's estate last year and I refused to take off work for it. They arranged to come to my house during nap to take the deposition after I had o.k.'d it with my clients. Picture this: a court reporter, insurance guy and 3 lawyers sitting at the child sized table in my basement. All of them with the exception if the court reporter were built like football players. The looks on their faces when they realized that was where we would be sitting were priceless.

I do my interviews at that table and often forget that "regular" sized people or tall people do not fit it as comfortably as I do.

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