From nine to twelve months: large movements

The progress from crawling to pulling and walking around the support and, finally, walking without support is one of the most amazing

sequences of milestones in motor development of a child. Keep your camcorder ready. This young choreographer will show you a lot of interesting movements, climbing up the ladder of development.

Locomotor development of

By the age of nine months, most children fully master the crawling style that is most effective, convenient and quick. For most children, this is a cross crawl that allows you to best maintain your balance because two limbs from different sides of the body always remain on the floor. Cross crawling teaches the child to coordinate the movements of both sides of the body and prepares the child for acquiring other physical skills.

As soon as a child acquires such skill as crawling, he has a desire to experiment with various variants of this skill. Crawling, the child as if flirting, wagging his ass, shaking his head and pulling all his body into motion.

Crawling opens a new dimension to communication for the child. Now he can approach himself and not wait until you approach him. As a puppy, joyfully greeting the owner, the kid creeps up to your foot, pulls up the leg in a standing position and says with his whole look: "Let's play."

What about the safety gate?

Installing a gate at the top of the stairs is like waving a red rag in front of a young bull-calf. The impulsive researcher will necessarily pull up these gates up and will yank them back and forth until one day, along with the gate, he will fly down the stairs. Rely on the gate or teach your child to safely crawl down the stairs - it depends on the nature of the child and his crawling skills. Look at how your child creeps up to the top step. At the age of about ten to eleven months, most children have some caution at seeing the height. Some children crawl to the edge, stop, look and feel the edge with their hands. These are the children who can be taught to go down the stairs right - backwards. But impulsive children do not take the time to stop and touch the edge;they usually rush straight down the stairs. Such children, as well as those children who have a rapid progress in motor development( which early begin to walk), belong to the category that requires careful supervision and strong protective gates.

A jump through the crawl stage

Some child development specialists believe that if a child jumps through the crawl stage, he has a high risk of problems with coordination of movements in the future, since crawling is the beginning of the development of equilibrium. Although for some children this statement may be true, there are many perfectly normal children with good coordination who quickly jump through the crawl to move on to other modes of movement. One of our daughters "walked" on their knees, instead of crawling. Another kid slid on his stomach, one leg stretched out, and the other tucked under him. Some children slip so well that they quickly lose interest in crawling. And, perhaps, they are encouraged even more by the approving exclamations of the enthusiastic audience, who contemplates their sweet antics.

From crawling to climbing and climbing

See how the child crawls to the bed or to the couch. He grabs the coverlet or the upholstery and pulls up as far as he can;this is called a support lift. Lifting on the support and climbing is different from crawling in that it is already moving upwards;Here is another example of how a child translates one skill into another. As the neurologically child develops from the head to the toes, his arms are stronger and more coordinated than his legs and feet. First, the child is pulled up with both hands, and his weaker legs are bent and the feet are turned inward. Finally the

the child learns to jostle with his feet when pulling himself up on his hands. After the child is pulled up on the side wall of the sofa or his highchair, he looks around in amazement at the fact that he climbed here himself, and enjoys a new look. At some point it seems that he will stand like this forever. But his legs bend, and he quickly settles on the floor.

And now the fun begins. After the child has learned to crawl and climb the pedestal, he begins to climb. Now the child will be happy to climb over the mountains of pillows and especially love the game "Climb through Dad."Then the child starts to climb everything. You will find him dreamily looking at the "ladder to heaven."By the end of the first year, your child may be able to crawl a whole flight of stairs, especially if he is encouraged by loud cries of a crowd of proud parents and brothers and sisters. But notice that the child has a lost appearance when he finds himself stuck on the top of the stairs. The kids do not have an intuitive understanding that the safest way to get down the stairs is backwards. They turn and bravely rush down, head forward. Children do not need any help to climb up the stairs, but usually they need help to go down them. Teach your child to go down the stairs with his back, unfolding him. Show

to him how to hang one foot over the edge of the step to touch the lower step. Then the child will use his feet as probes to measure distance when descending from the ladder( or when he climbs off the couch).You can be sure that your child knows how to go down the stairs when on the upper landing he turns backwards and touches the second step first with his feet.