Many parents like to put their babies into the walker, thinking that this will allow the baby to learn to walk faster, and both save energy and can prevent the baby from falling. But in fact, long-term or premature reliance on the walker may have adverse consequences for the baby’s growth. What countries say about walkers China’s Ministry of Health’s Technical Guidelines for Childhood Fall Intervention, mentions that the use of walkers is not recommended. The American Academy of Pediatrics has proposed a ban on the manufacture and sale of walkers. In Canada, legislation was enacted in 2006 to ban the production of walkers. Some parents say this about walkers Benefits: It helps parents free their hands. Especially if there is no one to help with the baby’s mother, in the baby’s toddler period is like a treasure, do not have to worry about the baby falls and bruises, but also to a certain extent to help the baby find their own sense of walking. But must be used during the baby’s toddler period, can not be used too early, it is generally recommended that when the baby can stand alone, with a toddler car to help the transition to help the baby have confidence, not afraid to step away from the feet. Disadvantages: too dependent on the toddler car, easy to cause the baby to walk too fast, too fast. In uneven places will also be easy to roll over and bump the baby. When the baby’s bones are not fully developed to support the full weight of the body, the premature use of walkers to let the baby stand or walk, the baby’s heel is basically not force, too much use will let the baby habitually form the forefoot on the ground walking posture, O-leg, X-leg and other deformities. The use of walkers on baby hazards infants in the crawling directly by sitting put into the walker, due to its weak neck muscles, head weight, accounting for about 18% of body weight, walkers move, the head sway back and forth, it is easy to infant cervical spine injury. When the baby in the walker activities, because of the curiosity of new things, the brain dominates the hand to take or drag the unseen things, when the weight of the things taken or dragged more than the weight of the walker, the walker is very easy to fall over, causing injury to the baby. If the quality of the walker is not good, some small parts are easy to fall off, the infant’s curiosity drives it to put small parts into the mouth and swallow, it is easy to cause the infant suffocation, bringing irreparable damage. Because babies will chew the walker desktop, if the quality is not good for babies. In addition, the exposed protrusions on the walker (especially the pointed ones) can cause stab wounds to the baby. The walker will be fixed in the baby, so they lose a good opportunity to crawl exercise, coupled with other undesirable factors can easily make it suffer from sensory disorders, manifesting itself as active, capricious, grumpy, inattentive, not easy to communicate with others. The baby is learning to walk, thighs, hips and calf muscles are very important, and the use of the walker can be found, stirring the legs, mainly to strengthen the calf muscles, the thighs and hip muscles are not affected, so the walker actually leads to parents can not correctly determine whether the baby’s lower limb muscles are enough to stand and walk, intervene and interrupt the baby to exercise their lower limb muscles. Throw away the walker and let your baby learn to walk naturally. Generally babies are in the critical period of 10 to 12 months to practice standing and walking. Walking is the most challenging of all gross motor developments, and the previous lifting, rolling over, sitting, and crawling are all in preparation for this. Standing and walking should be coordinated with your baby’s own muscular abilities. So how to train your baby to walk step by step? 1, when the baby can crawl, we must create a safe crawling environment for the baby, lay a clean floor mat, and use the fence to properly limit the baby’s range of motion, so that the baby in which you want to sit, crawl, crawl, stand, even if the stand is not stable, do not worry about falling head. 2, when the baby crawl to a certain extent, it began to challenge themselves, gradually holding the sofa or the edge of the bed to stand up, which is a good exercise for his leg muscles. 3, parents can prepare a push walker, you can let the baby slowly hold the walk, is conducive to practice leg strength. But first to clear out a large enough field, while someone to watch over the side. 4, the use of toddler belt. When playing outside, parents can use the kind of bundle in the baby’s chest and armpits of the toddler belt, parents through the two straps to prevent the baby from falling. However, you need to pay attention to the belt can not be too tight, do not pull too hard or too control the direction of the child walking, speed, to give the initiative to the baby.