Baby

The steps that come before walking

May 7, 2018

Parents are always eager to see their child walk for the first time but until then, their baby will develop other interesting strategies to move. Here are five of them!

Crawling

When a baby is playing on his tummy, he sometimes wants to reach toys that are too far. Two strategies are available to him: crying until his parents grab it for him or crawling to get it himself. He will wait two or three times for too many seconds before his parents understand what he wants and give it to him, after that, he will try the second solution.

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