How to assist a baby in learning to walk

A baby starts trying how to walk when it is four months old. By the end of the fifteen monthsold, it learns to walk and moving around the house on its own in general. This is reallya thrillingperiod when you should assist the baby to be confident through words of praises and playing different games. Now you can get an overall idea to help your baby in learningwalking all the stages from sitting to walking one by one.

How to help in sitting stage:​

Sitting on its own without the help of anything is the first sign that it is achieving mobility. It helps to build up the muscles that it requires standing firmly. This stage continues from four to seven months old while you can help it by playing roll a ball back and forth or stacking games.

How to help in Crawling stage:

In this stage, the most significant matter forthe babyis to move its arm and legs at a time. These skills will help it at thetime of thewalk. It goes on during from seven to ten months old. While crawling from one corner of the apartment to another corner and developing skills, appreciate it for the movements.

How to help in Pulling Up:

When a baby is near toeight months old, it starts pulling itself up with the assistance of parent or furniture. Assist it in pulling itself up then display it the way to bend its knees to go down to the floor. In this period, you should start working on making it familiar with standing position and how to get balance.

​Walking with Help:

As it learning how to get balance and stand by pulling your hand or furniture, assist it to have few more steps. The more it is standing on its feet and taking steps, the more it will be confident and comfortable to take more steps.Practicing, again and again, is the key for the baby at this phase. This practice should be continued when it is in between eight to nine months old.

How to help in Cruising stage:

At nine to eight months old period, baby moves around the home by holding furniture and walls. This is indicated to as cruising. Since it tends to go around, ensure the house is fully baby proof and all fixtures and fittings are secured and safe.Appreciate and encourage it to be more self-reliant while moving around and allow it to walk towards the wall or furniture. Before letting it go around make sure it is danger free.

Standingwithout Help:

To learn walking, balance is the central part. If it can balance itself and stand for a short while, it will definitely love to attempt the next steps. Make balancing a game. Give it time and support it to stand up and then count how long it can keep standing before falling down on the floor. Thank it and praise it for each effort is made. In between nine months to twelve months age, it is continued.

First Steps:​

First steps are really a great achievement for the baby, so celebrate it and make it memorable. Doing something new requires confidence, so building up the walking confidence in baby’s mind needs muchadmiring, support, and encouragement. Welcome and enjoy the first step having sat down on the floor and directing it slowly as it achieves balance. Allow it to walk on its own.

How to help in walking stage:​

It is a continuous effort before the baby starts walking independently. Admire it persistently as the baby on the way to learn how to walk. Bear in mind that most of the babies would like to crawl or have a crawl then walk meaning walk /crawl hand in hand before walking on its feet regularly. It continues when the baby is in between nine to fifteen months old.

The Truth about Walkers:

Try to avoid using walkers to teach how to walk as it is really dangerous as a thousandbabies end up in thehospital due to anaccident while using it. Canada has already outlawed walkers selling in the country and The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) seriously discouraging the use of walkers and also requesting the White House to ban it in the USA.

Conclusion

​Human beings are blessed with countlessblessings.Walking is one of them. Practice is the key to achieving anything perfectly. The love and care that God put inside the parent’s heart towards the baby are enough to grow up a true human being. As a loving parent, you have to be sincere in your efforts and have to push the baby andencourage with praising words patiently to gain anything and to be a true human being.