When the baby is seven or eight months old, he becomes restless， this makes parents very tired. In order to free themself and let the baby learn to walk early, many parents will buy a walker for the baby. There are many disadvantages for babies to rely on walkers, which may affect the development of leg shape. Moreover, walkers also limit children’s freedom and affect their intellectual development. Now let’s learn about the dangers of walkers with me.
How about baby walkers
The baby walker is not recommended to be used when learning to walk. In fact, there are many potential safety hazards in the walkers, because the walkers can help infants to go to many places, so when the infants slide, they are likely to hit the corners, and it is possible to accidentally hit the head, or sometimes the walkers will roll over due to uneven force, which will cause injuries to the infants.
In fact, learning to walk with the help of a walker is not conducive to the baby’s walking practice, because the baby is sometimes frightened by the speed of the walker. Later, he or she will be afraid when walking independently. As a result, it is not conducive to the baby’s intellectual development and the gradual development of his or her personality.
What are the dangers of baby using walkers
Research shows that children who often stay in walkers will crawl and walk later than children who do not use walkers, and walkers also limit children’s freedom and affect their intellectual development. Of course, injuries to children caused by overturning due to poor quality of walkers also occur frequently.
1. Reduce the baby’s opportunities for exercise
Exercise can strengthen the coordination of various parts of the body, including crawling, standing, bending, walking, etc. The baby is fixed in the walker, which makes the baby lose the opportunity of exercise. Because learning to walk requires coordination of eyes, hands and feet, and the the walker blocks the baby’s vision. The baby can’t see his walking feet, so he does not know why he is walking
2. Affect the baby’s intellectual development
Children learn to know objects by touching, grasping, knocking, hitting, throwing, etc. Free exploration is helpful to the development of children’s intelligence. The walkers limit children’s freedom of activities and affect their intellectual development.
3. Increased the probability of accidental injury
Some parents think that it is not easy to get hurt when using the walkers, but in fact, the walkers are easy to hurt the baby under the eyes of adults. The walkers give infants who are not good at moving and don’t know the danger the ability to move quickly. Children may quickly enter dangerous areas, such as head-on collision with you holding hot water, which may cause burns to the baby.
In addition, the application of walkers shortens the baby’s crawling time, and early use may correspondingly reduce the baby’s crawling experience, which may lead to poor hand foot coordination, lack of tactile experience, or fall easily when leaving the walkers in the future.
4. Baby becomes eccentric
Learning to crawl before the age of 1 plays a vital role in the coordination of movements of various parts of the body. If the baby stays in the walker all day, he or she will miss the crawling study period before the age of 1. He or she is prone to suffer from sensory integration disorder syndrome, which is characterized by restlessness, capriciousness, irritability, difficulty in communicating with others, lack of concentration, reading and jumping.
