Walkers - Baby - My Child Guide

Walkers

Parents are keen to acquire walkers as an important part of their child requirements and pushes them to use before the time of walking. But we warn against with interference with children's physical growth and mental development.

As normal development of the child he should stand alone at 10 months or even one year and could walk alone when he is one year or year and a half.

If the child is overweight walkers may lead to bowing of legs.

Walkers may be useful in case of child who passed the age of walking and had no desire to walk alone for fear of walking. In this case, they must be under good supervision to ensure safety.

In a scientific research on children who were using walkers, was published by an American medical magazine, shows that children who used walkers were delayed than their peers in crawling, standing and walking alone and concluded that every 24 hours the child spent in walkers delays him what is equivalent to 3 days to be able to walk alone and about 4 days to stand alone.

It was also noted that children who uses walkers has tip-toe walking instead of walking on whole feet when they began walking.

Researched found the cause that walker hinders their development of muscle that helps the child to move and increase the risk of trauma in children and therefore we advise not to use walkers.

The research confirmed that the use of walkers in the first months delays their mental and physical development. Children who are trained to walk using walkers will be delayed in sitting, crawling and are making fewer score in early tests of physical and mental development, and this confirms that they are less intelligent than their peers who are trained to walk naturally without any methods of assistance.

It is know that walkers enable children who can not crawl the ability to walk or move at home, where they are sitting with their legs touches the ground, which are equipped with wheels and a small table to put toys on

This research indicates that this large area of table in newer types of walkers prevent children to see their moving feet thus depriving them of the visual information which helps them learn how to move with their body in space. Walkers also have converted a child without discovering the world around them and hold things, which is important in the process of mental development.

Risks of walkers

• Fall of the child from the stairs, leading to comminuted fractures or concussion or brain hemorrhage, and cause permanent disability or death! • Reaching things placed in a high place they can not reach normally, as walkers enables the child free mobility and movement in places not fit with the young age

What is the alternative?

We advise the mother when they are occupied or busy with domestic chores to put their child in a fixed chair or playing bed with transparent high walls, especially if he crawls.

N.B. Canada has already banned the sale of baby walkers.

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