The kid stepped over a half-year line and is actively developing. The space around it is expanding a little, closer and closer it becomes a huge world, familiar to us adults. A world that he has yet to explore. This work is not easy, and the child must be ready for it. Even despite the desire of dad and mom as soon as possible to teach him to move independently - to crawl.
The question
“how” to teach a child to crawl on all fours is not so much important here, but how much is “when”.
The baby’s
muscular system must undergo “testing” for readiness for the Big Journey before this. The baby makes a serious request for this, when without help from the side it turns from the back to the stomach and also, without support, begins to sit. Do not rush him, otherwise in the future he may have problems with posture and difficulty walking.
The baby can carry out the preparatory exercise from birth - starting from your hands starting with its legs. Push off one - immediately give him a chance to push off and the other. This is not noticeable to us, but the child also senses his development with the stronger muscles of his legs.
If the “test” passes successfully, it’s time to show the peanut that he was born not only to lie, but also to crawl. An important event will happen in his life - you remove the first limiter of his living space, giving him more time to be on the floor. Do I need to say how important it is to help a child with his mom and dad - his dearest people? Feeling comfort in their presence, the baby will calm down and quickly decide on new actions for him.
A proven way
to teach a child to crawl on all fours is to create an incentive for him in the form of a bright toy at such a distance that he can reach it with a pen. Some kind of “revived” toy (multi-colored ball) will “run away” a little further - and the baby will make the first active attempt to crawl to it. Hooray?
No, it's too early. It is necessary to teach him to move correctly. This, again, should be demonstrated by parents, helping the little one - lifting it under the tummy, creating support for the legs.
When the child learns to stand on his knees, make sure that he rests his handles on the bottom of an inverted plastic basin 25-30 cm tall. Mom carefully moves the basin, after which the baby slowly moves, dad - insures from behind.
When experimenting with how to teach a child to crawl on all fours, keep in mind that the second important event for him is happening: for the first time in his life, it’s not the mother who leaves him for a while, but he is estranged from the mother. Therefore, at first, the person most dear to him should be constantly visible to him. Never refuse a baby if he is frightened of the distance that arises and wants to "handle". Be patient. Sooner or later, an irresistible interest in the Big Journey will leave behind the “manual mode”. Perform all exercises in the form of a game, with affection and love.
Do not think that for all children there is one single crawling style. Each develops its own version of the norm. But, on average, the baby turns into a “slider” between five months and one year of life.
Your efforts on how to teach your child to crawl on all fours have been successful? Get on all fours yourself. Crawl around the entire apartment perimeter and look at the world through the eyes of the baby. All objects that come into view that pose a potential danger to him should be removed to where only an adult can get them.