My eleven month old loves this climber - it encourages him to practice climbing, sliding, creeping, and even making baskets.  He feels like such a big man when he climbs the rock wall to the platform and stands up waving!  Only tiny con is that that few areas that needed screws had their pilot holes drilled crooked - we had to horse on it a little to get the whole thing to fit together properly, although, now that it is together, it has been very sturdy.