Pikler Studio & Shop

Our mission:

As the Pikler® House’s official representative with regards to its publications, we strive to preserve and further develop the Hungarian pediatrician dr. Emmi Pikler's heritage. The Pikler® Pedagogical Approach hopes to offer a golden mean in today's eclectic world of early childhood pedagogies: it advocates respectful care, self-initiated gross motor development and autonomous play as well as a healthy balance of parents' and children's needs. The Pikler® Studio and Shop publications provide a vast array of knowledge in these fields to
parents and professionals alike. Pikler® House History:

The Pikler® Institute, a residential home for infants and small children, provided care for over 2000 children aged 0-3 during its 65 years of operation between 1946-2011. Owing to the special, carefully developed relationship between caregivers and the children, as well as
the employment of the ground-breaking principles of free movement and free play, dr. Emmi Pikler and her colleagues provided a sound basis for the healthy development of the children living at ’Lóczy’. In addition to caring for the infants and young children, dr. Emmi Pikler and her colleagues did important methodological and pedagogical work for decades, resulting in a large body of written and audio-visual documentation. The Hungarian Pikler-Lóczy Association and its
predecessors have published some 150 books, DVDs and articles in 10 different languages so far, and are planning to publish much more in the future, made available through the Pikler Studio Vimeo Page and the Pikler® Shop. Today, the Pikler® House continues the pedagogical and methodological work in various different ways. We offer further education courses for early childhood professionals,
parenting classes and workshops for local parents and parent-child groups in the original building of the Institute. We publish educational and parenting resources, and our managing team is in the process of onboarding manufacturers of official Pikler® furniture and gross
motor equipment. Through this, we aim to support local Pikler® organizations around the world and protect the Pikler® trademark in its various uses. For current information on our local programs please follow the Pikler Műhely FB page. For further info on our courses and official Pikler® furniture and equipment manufacturers, please go to our homepage at
www.pikler.hu.