Don't use a walker! Children aged 7 to 8 months should practice crawling, standing and walking with hands.
The "walker" is called "learning to walk", but it can not achieve the goal of "learning to walk". When children learn to walk, they can only learn to master the ability to balance their bodies through their own active activities. If children rely on the "walker", they will lose the opportunity to master balance, which is not conducive to controlling balance and learning to walk. There was a follow-up survey on infants who used walkers for 5-15 months. The results showed that infants who used walkers could sit, crawl and walk about 1 month later on average.
The results also showed that children who used walkers scored lower on the intelligence development test than those who did not use walkers. Children learn to know objects by touching, grasping, knocking, hitting, and throwing. Free exploration helps children's intellectual development. The walker restricts children's free activities, deprives them of learning opportunities, and affects their intellectual development. The walker also increases some accidental injuries, such as overturning after hitting something, falling down stairs, etc. A few children are short and touch the ground with their toes when they ride on a walker for 7 to 8 months, resulting in an abnormal posture of walking with their toes and even mistaken for cerebral palsy. Therefore, it is better not to use or use less walkers.
This article is from Sina blogger Pan Xin Blog
