In my daily life, I hear some mothers or grandparents with children boasting about their children to others: "My children have not climbed, and they will soon walk, much earlier than the average child who learns to walk!" Then they will all be praised by the people next to them: "Wow, your baby is really capable, so fast to walk!" ”
I heard these words next to me, although I never interjected, but there was still a vague worry from their conversation: don't look at a small crawling action, a climbed and not climbed, a child who climbed for a long time and did not climb much, the gap between them is very large, which is a very important part of the development of their big movement.
In the order of the development of the child's big movement, we summarize it like this: "Two lifts, four flips, six will sit, seven rolls and eight climbs will walk", that is, by seven or eight months, children should learn to crawl!
01 Why should a child go through the stage of crawling
First, crawling can make the muscles of the whole body move
When the child is 8 months old, he will begin to have the consciousness of independent crawling, which is a very important stage, if the child is just learning to crawl, then his chest and abdomen are close to the ground, at this time, the need for the coordination of the head and hands, the child can crawl forward.
After the child himself has truly learned to crawl, in crawling, he must first learn to lift his head, which requires head and neck coordination. In the process of the child's progress, you need to climb with your hands, pedal, and then the body and abdomen are followed forward, at this time, the child's head, neck, chest, back, abdomen, limbs, hips can be fully exercised, which makes the child's big movements have been well developed, but also consume the child's physical strength and energy, more conducive to eating and sleeping!
Second, crawling can develop a sense of balance
Crawling can promote the development of the child's vestibular system, which is actually an important part of the child's brain nerves, and is the brain's sensory, motor-sensory information processing center.
In the process of crawling, children can promote the development of brain tribal warfare, children need to observe the surrounding environment with both eyes during crawling, while the hands and feet need to constantly explore forward, through hand-eye coordination to continuously guide themselves to crawl forward, this process the child's vestibular system will follow the processing of a variety of external input information, and processing and sorting, the vestibular system is very much in need of this continuous moderate stimulation, through such a repeated cycle of crawling action, the child's vestibular system is continuously developed.
The vestibular system is an important part of the human body's balance system, and the sense of balance is more important for children, such as when children are engaged in various activities, they will maintain the balance of the body by adjusting the tilt of the head, and when they accidentally want to fall, the sense of balance can allow them to make measures such as holding their heads in time to avoid being hurt!
Not only that, but studies have shown that the sense of balance and attention are very closely linked, and children with a good sense of balance will have easier concentration and concentration in the future.
Children with dysregulation of the vestibular system are often prone to problem children, such as: at home, they will behave without sitting, standing without standing, prone to tantrums, and may even produce aggressive behavior. In school, they do not have easy concentration, love to do small movements in class, difficulty in language expression, and have no sense of rules, unwilling to obey the discipline of the teacher, these are the problems of children whose vestibular system is not fully developed, and these problems will affect their growth in life!
Third, crawling can expand the child's motor area
Babies who crawl less or do not crawl, his range of motion will be relatively narrow, babies within 1 year old is the fastest period of brain development, at this time if the child can not contact a lot of new things in life, it is obviously not conducive to the child's brain development.
After children are able to crawl, their area of movement is no longer confined to cribs and adult arms, but can continue to expand the area of movement, such as on the sofa, on the floor, and even in the kitchen and between different bedrooms.
All in all, as long as within the scope of safety and ability, children can initially realize the freedom of "going where they want to go", as the activity area continues to expand, the child's vision will continue to expand, they will receive more and more external stimuli, and brain development will become more and more mature!
02 How parents should guide their children to learn to climb better
Crawling is a stage that children must go through in the development of large sports, but some parents still use walkers to let children learn to walk too quickly, but ignore the important stage of crawling. In order not to let the child miss this important stage, parents should guide the child to crawl well.
In the first stage, guide the child to have the awareness and behavior of crawling.
Children around 7 months old, just have the awareness of climbing but have not yet developed the ability to climb, at this time, parents should work together to guide children to crawl.
We can put the baby on a flat bed, the mother gently supports the baby's feet with her hands on the back side of the baby, the father is in front of the baby, gently holding the baby's small hand, and then the mother gently pushes forward in the back, and the father gently pulls the child's hand to climb forward, at this time the child slowly squirms forward like a small earthworm.
This action can be repeated for about 10 minutes until the baby is tired and can rest, and the next day it can be repeated.
In the second stage, guide the child to crawl in various forms
At this stage, children already have a certain ability to crawl, in order to encourage children to crawl more, we can do some experiments.
Directional climbing: Take out a brightly colored small leather ball, place it about 1 meter away from the baby, and then tease the child to crawl in the direction of the small leather ball until the baby climbs to the position of the small leather ball and gets it. Then you can prepare other brightly colored items and place them farther away to guide your baby to crawl farther away.
Turn to climb: Find a toy that the child is particularly interested in, or a newly bought fresh toy, play with the child for a while to arouse his interest, and then the parents take the toy away and put it in a different direction when the child is playing, and guide the child to adjust the crawling direction to turn to crawl. When the child is about to touch the toy, the mother can pick up the toy again and place it in another, farther direction, allowing the child to crawl in the same direction as the object turns.
Free climbing: Parents can open up a small field for babies to crawl freely at home, so that babies can crawl safely and freely inside, giving children more and more space to grow!
Crawling path: Pave some "trails" of different materials for children, such as using mats, long cloth, etc., or on tile floors and wooden floors, so that children can crawl on different materials on the ground, contact different textures, not only can increase the fun of crawling, but also play a positive role in touch!
Therefore, the child crawls or has not crawled, the gap is very large, as a parent must pay special attention, while mastering some methods to guide children to crawl, so that children can enjoy the joy of crawling!
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