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A high chair is a piece of furniture used for feeding older babies and younger toddlers. The seat is raised a fair distance from the ground, so that a person of adult height may spoon-feed the child comfortably from a standing position (hence the name). It often has a wide base to increase stability. There is a tray which is attached to the arms of the high chair, which allows the adult to place the food on it for either the child to pick up and eat or for the food to be spoon-fed to them.

A booster chair is meant to be used with a regular chair to boost the height of a child sufficiently. Some boosters are a simple monolithic piece of plastic. Others are more complex and are designed to fold up and include a detachable tray.

Rarely, a chair can be suspended from the edge of the table avoiding the need for an adult chair or a high chair.

Potential accidents
High chairs can result in child-related accidents. Due to the elevated design of the chair, many children are susceptible to head and face injuries after falling off of the high chair. Common injuries include fractures, lacerations, and abrasions. Other injury possibilities are accidental strangulation from poor restraint design and failure, or when any body part of the child is caught on the frame or structure of the chair.

Safety standards
The EU standard EN 14988:2017+A1:2020 has been published in 2020 by the European Committee for Standardization. Over time, with more data from studies about child-related injuries from the high chairs, the designs were altered to include more safety features that would ensure a child or infant is safe and secure when placed in the high chair. Upgraded designs featured safety straps and full-body harnesses with buckles to ensure that children up to three years old would not slip out of the seat. Cushioning that lines the back of the chair and the armrests for comfort were also added with a goal to improve the ergonomics of the high chair.

Settings
A high chair is most common for parents to have at home whenever their baby needs to be fed. Eventually, during the early 1900s, high chairs and children's menus had begun to make appearances in restaurants and diners, appealing to parents and increasing the accessibility for families to dine in public without having their child remain at home without a parental figure present.