How to guide your baby to learn to crawl?

Most parents already recognize the importance of “crawling” for their children. Because “crawling” expands the child’s field of vision and range of motion, greatly expanding the scope and channels of information collection, which is of great help in the creation of logic; “crawling” also promotes the development of the child’s limb coordination movements. The active and active practice of the coordination of the external expression of the child’s logical thinking plays a very important role in forming the child’s complete “complex logical thinking” in the future. There is no doubt that “crawling” is very meaningful for children. However, we need to remind parents that it is best to put the child in a conscious and active role of coordination training in order to achieve the nurturing purpose of “crawling”. Because a single apparatus or command for the child to passively complete the “crawl” training process, will greatly reduce the child’s interest in “learning” degree. Children should pay more attention to the training of coordination, that is, to change the passive into active, so that the child through the external expression of crawling, to complete a whole logical thinking of the construction process, that is, from the child’s own individual, actively through the crawling to complete a group of information collection process, only then can achieve the true sense of coordination and mental health. After the baby will sit alone they are not willing to move in place, about corrective 7 months of the baby will begin to try the conversion of the position, they will be converted from straight-legged sitting to cross-legged sitting, and then converted to a leg abducted and externally rotated, a leg inward and inward, ready to convert from sitting to prone position, 7 months of the baby to adapt to prone elbow support in order to make the chest off the ground, followed by the emergence of belly crawl, 8 and a half to 9 months of the little treasure to be able to Complete hand support and double knee support to turn into a four-point support position, to move the baby will need a full range of baby guidance practice. Generally, there are two stages of crawling, firstly, crawling forward and then crawling on their hands and knees. There are many benefits of crawling, and moving in the prone position helps strengthen the arms and legs, preparing the child for future arm-leg coordination when crawling on hands and knees. Requirements for crawling: The child uses the abdomen as a fulcrum, touches the ground with the forearms, and pulls the torso forward. The legs can also alternate or move together. The prerequisite for this training is that the child does not resist the prone position, raises the head 90°, and the chest can leave the bed. Training method: The child is in the prone position, put a toy he likes about 1 meter in front of him, push the child’s feet to let him reach the toy forward, or move his arms according to the crawling movement pattern. Crawling on hands and knees: Helps to develop the strength of both shoulders and legs, and the development of alternating patterns on the opposite side during crawling helps the child to transform from crawling to walking. Training method: With the child in a prone position and forearms supported on the floor, pick up the child’s torso so that he is in a hands and knees supported position. You can also use a large bath towel to wrap around the child’s abdomen and torso, and lift the ends of the towel, and when the child is on his hands and knees, gently shake the towel and gradually reduce the help to lift the child to four-point support. Put an attractive toy or bottle in front of the child at 1.5 to 1.8 meters and let him take it, demonstrate him to crawl with his hands, push his feet to give some help or guide its upper limbs. The ability to crawl on hands and knees can also be promoted by climbing over large objects such as pillows, rolled up blankets or adult legs. Crawling is a very beneficial action for babies, which can exercise the strength and coordination of the baby’s whole body muscles and enhance the balance of the cerebellum, and has a good impact on the baby’s future learning of language and reading, therefore, mothers and fathers need enough patience and care, and I hope parents can fully use the knowledge taught this time to help their babies to complete the crawling action.