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by CynS14 on February 14th, 2005

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What are some creative ways to get your baby interested in walking when they've already taken their first steps?

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  • by jalex137 on July 27th, 2005

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    Assuming no clear physical or mental disabilty (your pediatrician would have mentioned it), just seeing you walk is enough. Don't be taken in by anybody's idea of when your baby should walk, or by what any other baby is doing. Your baby will try to imitate you as his/her body and brain are up to it. A baby who doesn't walk until say 18 months will by the age of two be indistinguishable from a two year old who started walking at 9 months. About all you need to do is keep his/her environment safe for experimentation, and help and encourage now and again as a part of play; no pressure. The walk behind toy, mentioned in another answer, would be a good thing to make available.

    Warning: this ends my direct answer to your question. The rest of this is a rant, continue at your own risk.

    This is true of just about every developmental milestone (talking, reading, being ready for first grade at 6, you name it). You will do your baby/child a disservice by attempting to force him/her into some artifical time scale. It is perfectly normal to be a late bloomer.

    I am the dad of nine, the youngest is now 10 years old. We have experienced about the entire Bell Curve. We had one child who delayed both walking and talking to the point we were getting worried, and then rather quickly picked each one up with some proficiency. He didn't go through much stumbling and falling, he just "one day" stood up and walked as well as other kids his age who had been working at it for a while. He didn't bother much with words, he just kind of started in on phrases and short sentences. Reading, very similar. We waited a year to start him in first grade--he was seven, and it was tricky to finesse this in his understanding so he didn't feel like a loser. We got suckered into doing the Ritalin thing for a while in school. Our society (I'm assuming you're American) is generally rigged against late-bloomers, and it's the parents' duty to defend their children who don't fit the mold, so they can develop. And just so you know, he's been in the Air Force now for about seven years, in intelligence as a Chinese linguist (his Mandarin is at the level of a college educated native). Right now he's a Sergeant, doing a stint as an instructor, and expects to complete a Master's degree in Southeast Asian politics and economics before he gets out in three years.

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