It may seem a lack of attention but it is an easily verifiable reality: when a child is allowed to acquire his conquests autonomously in motor development, he goes through more stages of movement and this enriches him. Therefore, If you want your child to crawl, don't teach him to walk.
Crawling is the baby's first movement resource to access objects that are far away. Although they previously learn to turn to change positions and experiment, it is not usually used to change position in space. So crawling is a resource at your fingertips to be able to fulfill your motor projects.
We might think that the child would keep the two formulas, the crawling and the march assisted by us, simultaneously, but this is not usually the case. You have to compare a form of slow displacement and stuck to the ground in which you have to support with coordination effort in hands and knees with another formula in which it goes further from the ground (you can see with a more interesting perspective) and in the that the adult pays full attention and physical contact Typically, the baby sacrifices its possibility of autonomous displacement (crawling) by the other formula, more sophisticated but dependent on another person (the march). You also have to call by vocalizations, gestures or crying to that other person every time you want to move, so the feeling of dependence intensifies.
The alternative is to respect their independent evolution rate. The crawling arises because the child already has an intellectual and sensory need to approach the objects that attract him but still does not have the physical competence to do it standing up. With this method, achieving its objectives and, although of course it does not know, it benefits you later at the level of coordination between limbs, prevention of strabismus, facilitation of digestion and other factors that we will discuss in more detail in another entry.
It seems that crawling is a stage of development that occurs less and less frequently, but perhaps it is that we increasingly alter the natural rhythm of baby development, because it is proven (Budapest Pickler Institute) than when we are respectful spectators and available from that development without altering it, crawling arises naturally. So, If you want your child to crawl, don't teach him to walk.
