Up on tiptoe to reach

Standing on tiptoe is a whole-body balance held at its least stable point, and toddlers almost never do it on request — they do it because something they want is a few centimetres too high. Putting one thing just out of reach is the entire method.

🛡️ 🚨 Only ever on a stable surface that cannot tip or be pulled over — never a table with a cloth, a chest of drawers, a bookcase or anything unanchored, because reaching up is how furniture comes down on a toddler. Just above comfortable reach, never so high they need to climb.