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From: merrill@gigi.DEC (Rick GIGI::Merrill  DECRITE)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: "walking" too soon?
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 12:10:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 26 12:10:16 1984
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Some infants apparently learn to walk too soon and actually get bowed legs
because their bones were too soft.  It also seems likely that their mental
development is abnormal (good/bad?) because they did not spend enough time
crawling.  Crawling is used to help restore control to individuals who
have experienced brain trauma.  This is called "patterning" and teaches
opposed limb control (which a few babies never seem to master, but it
does not appear to hurt them - test yourself andyor kids: how do u crawl?)

Question is how early SHOULD one crawl, and for how long should a parent
keep gently putting a baby back on all fours?  We put ours back on all 
fours until they could stand without holding onto anything/body else.

Rick