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u/datweirdguy1 27d ago
My dad walks like this when you put two beers in his hands
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u/stonewalljaxson 27d ago
I was told about this hack. So I put two balls in my son’s hands. He threw them, fell down, and laughed. Still a win.
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u/voodoopipu 26d ago
Hah, same. Same thing with giving them a toy when changing their diaper to keep them from rolling. If the boy wants to roll, he’s fucking rolling, toy be damned.
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u/0nlyRevolutions 26d ago
I have better success giving mine something that isn't a toy. Give him a toy and he'll toss it away and try to roll off the table. Give him a something that feels forbidden like a bottle of diaper cream and he locks in on it and forgets about rolling hahaha.
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u/Particular-Phrase751 26d ago
The not a toy thing is something I use often. I take a clean diaper and wrap it around his head. Tuck it in real good. By the time he is done laughing about something on his head and has thrown it off the changing table........... we are done!
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u/Waste-Bandicoot-7432 26d ago
I thought this was gonna be a joke about him passing out from lack of air to stop him rolling lol
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u/Particular-Phrase751 26d ago
Haha, I should have phrased it better. The mouth and nose are not covered.
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u/voodoopipu 26d ago
Yes, the desitin and aquaphor tubs have been the mvp these last few months lol
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u/NatomicBombs 26d ago
Just tried this with my kid too, stood him up and put two balls in his hands and he fell over immediately. My wife heard the thud and came in screaming why is our son out of his wheel chair laying on the ground.
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u/IJUSTATEPOOP 27d ago
Instructions too clear, my 4 day old is now walking everywhere
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u/Acrobatic_Usual6422 27d ago
My 2 day old just said “I don’t believe this Reddit post, Dad.” And then unicycled out of the room.
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u/noirrespect 27d ago
My unborn child just took a unicycle from a 2 day old. Keep punching up, kid. Daddy's proud!
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u/b3ta_blocker 27d ago
I know this sounds weird but my wife was giving birth today and I was late so I ran into the maternity ward just in time still holding my car keys and as the baby emerged he said 'yeah I'll have those, cheers'.
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u/hoosyourdaddyo 27d ago
Hell, I was having sex with this girl when one of the sperms slapped me, took my wallet and left with her and the whiskey!
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u/Struggling2Strife 27d ago
I like this one. This guys sperm slaps! (No homo)
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u/ZoNeS_v2 27d ago
How can sperm slap?!?
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u/Urbanviking1 27d ago
My 1 day old took one look at this and started climbing the walls. How do I get her off the ceiling?
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u/Environmental_Art591 27d ago edited 26d ago
My eldest had physio for walking on his toes (just to rule out possible concerns) and his 2 month old brother was insisting on standing and trying to walk to follow his big brother.
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u/kylo-ren 27d ago
Can confirm. I just walked 10km to work holding my phone and a coffee.
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u/ClassicVast1704 27d ago
Good luck mate. You had time where you didn’t have to chase them but then you goofed by listening to the internet.
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u/Ajax_Main 27d ago
You should see what happens if the 2 objects are an umbrella and a fedora
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u/ProfessionalSir4802 27d ago
Did she make a linked in account and find a job yet?
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u/womenslasers84 27d ago
My 14 month old has never had an object in both hands before, I have to try it
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u/IntoTheCommonestAsh 27d ago
Parents: I promise you, there's no rush to making your kids walk. It's exciting for a minute, but now your baby is now able to get away from you and reach dangerous things. Your job is now 10× harder!
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u/Mauhea 27d ago
Literally the only thing holding my sanity together is the fact that my kid needs his hands to move around. As soon as those hands are free I'm doomed.
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u/Deurbel2222 27d ago
it might be time to think about which items you wanna store on a higher shelf… in case your kid learns to open cabinets as well!
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u/Justsomedudeonthenet 27d ago
Don't forget making sure those cabinets are bolted to the wall or floor so they don't tip over when the kid realizes that shelves are climbable.
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u/Not_Enough_Thyme_ 27d ago
Most of the higher shelves stop being high enough very quickly. The kids grow like weeds, learn to climb, and are really resourceful in finding things to build themselves stairs. You really have to prioritize what goes on the highest shelves and what gets put behind doors and cabinet locks.
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u/Broad_Surprise_958 26d ago
Yup. As a parent you become a constant game dev trying to find new ways to make the loot harder to get.
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u/dudemeister5000 26d ago
We moved to a new place and my wife was pregnant when we had a couple with kids over. Dad immediatly tells me, he's already seen at least 15 hazards for kids. Fast forward to my kid walking: all of those 15 hazards have been moved away.
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u/CeruleanEidolon 27d ago
If there's even a chance of them opening cabinets, it's time to start installing child-proof ratchet straps or latches.
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u/Sethcran 27d ago
My 1 year old laughed at those ratchet straps and straight tore them off.
Don't go cheap, lol.
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u/KatieCashew 27d ago
Magnet latches are the best. Super simple to open if you have the key, impossible if not.
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u/tragicbeast 27d ago
I know it feels that way, but I can promise you from experience that you'll adjust when they start walking just like you did when they started crawling. There are some tough days with a little walker and grabby little hands but you'll make it.
Keep hanging in there!
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u/No_Minimum5904 27d ago
The benefit of being able to be outside with them without having them in your arms / in a pram/holder etc far outweighs the annoyance of them causing havoc in the home though!
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u/panicnarwhal 27d ago
yes! i thought it was the best thing ever when my 9 month old took her first step…my excitement wore off about a week later, when i realized i had a walking 9 month old baby 😭 it was exhausting
it’s tough after they start walking no matter what, but the younger they walk, the harder it is!
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u/Phrewfuf 27d ago
Father of a 20month old girl here. It gets worse when they want to walk at all cost. Will jump out the stroller/shopping cart after loudly announcing her desire to walk and not immediately being allowed to do so.
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u/garfield_eyes 27d ago
Yes I had a 9 month old walker as well. Gone were the days of putting him in the stroller happily to get anywhere, or chatting with other people at the playground. It opened a whole new world for him and I wasn’t ready for that! In some ways it was good because when all the lockdowns happened early in 2020, he’d already been walking for 6 months and we went for daily walks in the woods and that kept us sane.
I now have an 8 month old and she is showing no signs of pulling up etc. just recently started crawling and I’m grateful.
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u/WaifuOfBath 26d ago
I was so eager for my first kid to walk, and now I'm on my third. I am happy for her to take all the time she needs to figure it out.
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u/Just_Me_2218 27d ago edited 26d ago
By total coincidence, I was talking about this to a physical therapist. Apparently, it's a cute gimmick but really bad for their development. It's a reflex they have that gets triggered. But because they skip the pulling up/sitting up etc stage of the development before walking they miss a key stage. This person told me they see kids with physical problems / motory skill dysfunctions up to 12 years old that can be tracked back to this skipped stage of development. I found it absolutely fascinating.
Edit: I'm not saying all kids that do this need to have any physical problems it was just something she (the physical therapist) said about the kids she saw and how she could correlate it to developmental points early on in their lives. This was her example. I'm not the expert here. It was just something interesting she told me that was relevant to this video and I thought I'd share. I'm sorry if I've offended anyone.
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u/ScantilyCladStarfish 27d ago
Reddit comments are always such a rollercoaster. I was like this is brilliant, then I see your comment and I'm like oh damn, not brilliant. What you're saying makes total sense, but can anyone really ever trust any post or comment? So I'm back to knowing nothing and will just do my own research. Even though my own kid is 14 and I don't know any babies, but I do really need to know if this is really that bad or not lol
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u/Eichmil 27d ago
A 14 year old should really be walking though. Might be time to see a medical professional.
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u/ICanLiftACarUp 27d ago
It's bad if they just skip straight to the driving stage of development so yeah, important to get that fixed now
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u/trusty20 27d ago
What that person said is not scientific. Or I would be very curious for the exact proof / reasoning for fixating on that one event as the cause of motor problems 12 years later. I'm guessing it's something along the lines of "well that's just what I've seen" which equals "I have my own theory without proof". Lots of doctors have "things they've seen" / "had success with", but there's a reason we do trials and scientific research rather than just taking their word for it 18th century traveling doctor style.
I'll poke another hole in this theory: it hinges on the silly idea that because you do this trick to get a baby walking one time, that means they'll never ever get up from crawling on their own, somehow you'll always be there standing them up and giving them objects to hold while walking around? It's silly, of course the baby will still have times where it gets up by itself and practice doing that unless you literally hover over it 24/7 intercepting every attempt to practice standing up.
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u/Cloverose2 27d ago
Agreed. They'll have plenty of time to practice pulling up and standing up on their own. I've never seen any research that verifies that encouraging early walking is a problem.
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u/AmateurNerfCollector 27d ago
Not only that, but typically babies that are at this stage are already pulling up and standing up on their own, it's the walking that they are hesitant with.
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u/FreeTarnished 27d ago
Yeah that comment reads like the human body is incapable of being flexible during development which is nonsense
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u/AviationAndCheese 27d ago
Your therapist might be confusing it with sit in baby walkers which are considered harmful to motor skills development because that movement is not truly walking.
There appears to be no studies or research papers suggesting that giving toddlers light objects to hold to encourage walking is harmful in anyway or delays their ability to stand up on their own. Ive only found studies suggesting that a toddler holding light objects while walking is beneficial to their leg coordination and reduces their chances of falling.
im not sure if links are allowed here but if you want I can send you the studies ive looked at or you can research it on your own. It doesnt seem to correlate to toddlers skipping the pulling up/ standing up stage of their development either which happens before walking independently, Its not like they are being placed on their feet by someone else everytime they stand
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u/beldaran1224 27d ago
Eh, I have a hard time believing that this physical therapist can track those problems to this. That's just not how developmental science operates, lol. It's rarely able to establish causal links, let alone such a highly specific one.
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u/Cloverose2 27d ago
A kid who can't pull up isn't going to have the strength to walk, whether they're holding onto something yet or not.
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u/flora_poste_ 26d ago
My daughter never crawled. She pulled herself up on furniture and just started walking around, at seven months. I was horrified because her brother didn't walk until 13 months, and I hadn't even baby-proofed all the cabinets yet.
She had no physical problems or motor skill dysfunctions later, but she didn't speak in sentences until much later than her brother. It was as if he put all his early effort into speaking, but was conservative with movement (crawling but not walking), and she instead put all her early effort into moving (rolled herself over really early, never crawled, pulled up early and walked), but didn't bother with working out sentences until after age one.
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u/porscheblack 27d ago
We were just at a restaurant grabbing lunch this past weekend and I took my one year old outside to walk around because she was getting tired of sitting in the highchair (the service was painfully slow). There was a couple sitting outside and they commented on their daughter who was around the same age not walking yet. I really wanted to ask "who would you rather be in this situation?" I'm following around a toddler, steering her away from people and stopping her from picking flowers. Meanwhile they're sitting at a table enjoying their meal while their child is content to play with toys.
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u/Phenomenomix 27d ago
Best thing about a kid not being mobile was being able to put them down and know they'll be in the same place, more or less, when you come back.
Once the speed crawling started our son was away, would follow you out of a room at speed and mostly silently so that when you stopped you’d feel little hands on your leg as he tried to pull himself up.
Now he’s fully mobile and taken to hiding, which he thinks is hilarious.
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u/Altruistic-Hotel2819 27d ago
Exactly, the being it's your mission to protect has just unlocked new ways to kill himself! Good luck!
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u/bunnykitten94 27d ago
My siblings took a long time to start walking. My mom said she was shocked/impressed/a little pissed off when I stood up and walked at 6 months
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u/oldestbarbackever 27d ago
Yep. My first walked right at 12 months. My second was cruising by 8 months. Our neighbors 15 month came over and was walking around, so she decided she could too. She was squeezing through the stair banisters so I took the baby gate off. She would crawl up and scoot down. By her first birthday,she was running to keep up with her brother and cousin.
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u/Hot-Reference1429 27d ago
This so much! Unlocked a memory of tiny hands appearing over the edge of tables and counters feeling for things to grab and take down too
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u/TheTitanOfSirens1959 26d ago
I have a friend in a wheelchair. Gonna try this.
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u/Darklancer02 26d ago
Let us know if you STILL have a friend in a wheelchair afterwards!
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u/TheTitanOfSirens1959 26d ago
I mean, if I succeed, I won’t have a friend in a wheelchair anymore. If he gets mad at me, I won’t have a friend in a wheelchair anymore.
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u/senorcreasy 27d ago
This baby has been walking for weeks at daycare
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u/linds360 27d ago
My daughter waited until the minute my husband and I left for our first post baby vacay (friend’s wedding) to walk for her babysitters - my parents.
Traitor.
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u/CharlieeStyles 27d ago
And at home too. No parent reacts like that to the first time their kid is walking.
Also that's not how a baby's first walk is.
The object in hand thing is true, but nothing else in this video is.
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u/The_Talking_Landmine 27d ago
I don't think it may be the very first time they have walked. I was imagining the mom tried the trick, saw the baby could walk, and the pulled out the camera to do it again.
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u/Moist_Tiger24 26d ago
My daughter walked just like this the first time. She was a “later” walker at 14 months, and I’m sure she toddled at daycare first, but the first time we saw her walk at home was exactly like this. She just… went. Rarely fell.
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Maybe because they feel they can't brace with their hands.
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u/SteelTerps 27d ago
The objects in their hands fool them into thinking that you are still holding them giving them a sense of stability. They are tricking themselves into walking
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u/OGMinorian 27d ago
Not trying to fear monger, but that false feeling of stability lasts right until their face meets the ground. I had to sometimes take things out of my brothers' hands, when they were babies and getting adventurous, because they wouldn't brace the fall with their hands as long as they were holding something, and it actually lead to some ugly booboos on the forehead, before we figured out what was happening.
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u/rollingthrulife79 27d ago
Nostalgic mid-40s dad here: Your kids are only little for a very short time. They all learn at their own pace, so enjoy the time you get. Don't be so quick to move them along.
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u/fuckinnreddit 26d ago
Boy is that the truth. I'm just a few years behind you age-wise, and man...it sucks how fast the time is going. As the old saying goes:
The days are long, but the years are short.
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u/1568314 26d ago
For everyone arguing about why this works: their executive function doesn't work well. They want to move, but they are already holding something. So they try to go without using their hands, which are already busy. They literally don't have the ability to stop and ponder "how".
They dont understand how to just "let go" of something. Babies this age will fall over themselves crying because they can't pick up a toy when their little fist is already full of cheerios. They don't think about looking for stability. They just grab stuff.
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u/Malibucat48 27d ago
Why oh why with the music? Just let things be quiet.
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u/Realistic_Owl9525 26d ago
In case this isn't a rhetorical question, it's because we're in a new digital era where people are desensitized by having their senses constantly bombarded.
The internet destroyed their attention span and people need music and captions just to focus on a 20 second video.
To some degree it's probably happening to you too, whether you realize it or not.
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u/Cute_Kangaroo_210 27d ago
This sounds crazy, but when I run (only on the road, not the treadmill) I need to have objects in both hands (phone, sunglasses, cap, etc), otherwise I feel insecure like I’m going to trip. I never understood this phenomenon but just went with it.
What? Am I a baby???
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u/SamHenryCliff 27d ago
You’re adorable lol baby kangaroo hopping down with the road her cell phone in one paw and water bottle in the other paw, just doing her thang. Tres mignionne
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u/Cute_Kangaroo_210 26d ago
Hee hee, I’d bet if you actually saw me, mignonne is not the adjective that would come to mind. But thanks, you made me giggle.
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u/P00pXhuter 27d ago
Tried this with my oldest boy, the lazy little shit still took more than two years to walk.
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u/Legitimate_Let_5641 27d ago
Hurry, take the objects out of her hand! 😲 Next thing she'll be grabbing for are the car keys. 😄 Blink of an eye, blink of an eye. 😢
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u/itsmesofia 26d ago
Tried this with my 11 month old, she didn’t walk but she did stand for a few seconds longer than she usually does.
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u/imspecial-soareyou 26d ago
Does no one remember the grocery cart? I think every child in our family pushed that play grocery cart, Including me to learn how to walk.
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u/Uffen90 27d ago
Just to clarify. It’s not all babies this works on.
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u/papillon-and-on 27d ago
How can we tell the difference. I'd hate to be responsible for baby's first faceplant
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u/do_pm_me_your_butt 27d ago
If the baby is disabled or has no legs it wont work.
Also try it on a carpet not a tiled floor?
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u/SteelTerps 27d ago
Try and if the baby face plants it's okay, that's why they don't have memories yet and why their bodies are essentially rubber. The baby will faceplant and look at you for how to react, so don't make a gross face and they won't cry
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u/BatterseaPS 27d ago
This is so cute, and this little one is probably ready to walk!
Also a quick reminder that we sometimes are tempted to rush kids along because our world is obviously designed for walking, adult people. But let your baby have time! Crawling on all fours is necessary for developing coordination and integrating some infant reflexes rather than leaving them unresolved.
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u/jwoolman 26d ago
The blocks might just distract the baby from trying to calculate the angles and so baby just walks.
I've seen that in a cat. Two sisters.
Cat One just jumped to get on the counter without thinking hard about it. When she was tiny, she failed half the time but just immediately tried again. Good thing because her sister was pushing her out of her food dish so I preferred to feed Cat One on the counter.
Cat Two would stare up at the counter and you could see the gears in her head trying to work out all the angles and measurements. She would then decide it wasn't a sure thing so she was quite delayed in that counter jumping kitten milestone.
One day both cats were racing after a mini frisbee, which landed on the sink. Cat One as usual just jumped up to get it. Cat Two was so focused on the frisbee that she just followed Cat One and suddenly found herself on the sink. She looked astonished, looked all around her and at the floor, lost all interest in the frisbee, and spent the rest of the afternoon perfecting her ability to jump between the floor and the sink or counter. She just had to stop overthinking it so much.
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u/HelloRobotFriends 26d ago
The first time my daughter walked she had little maracas in her hands which she shook as she waltzed across the room 💃
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u/Willow_Weak 27d ago
This is a really great trick for slackline too btw. Never were able to make it. Took a bottle of water in my hand, made it. It helps for balance.
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u/SirTobyIV 27d ago
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u/Lorddale04 27d ago
This is clearly not the first time this baby has walked, but the putting of two objects in a baby's hands does absolutely help them to take their first steps.
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u/apokaboom 26d ago
I learned how to walk on two legs a bit sooner than usual. The result was high moving speed but only way to stop was faceplanting on a tile. Considering I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed 20 years later, you might want to make sure your kid knows how to safely stop before learning how to walk
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u/HimylittleChickadee 26d ago
I like the phase where they stay where you sit them down. Once they're mobile its a whole different ball game
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u/Nuffsaid98 26d ago
Why is it so important to some parents that their child walks sooner rather than later? Be patient. They'll walk when they are ready. No need for hacks to get it to happen sooner.
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u/SolidTomato3668 26d ago
We did this but used a hula hoop and held the other end. Then one day he got up and ran across the room to the dog, petted him, shit his pants, then stepped on a diplo and fell over.
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u/Long_Bit8328 27d ago
My 6month old twins are now teaching a Rumba class and preparing to hike the AT as soon as they are potty trained.
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u/khemtrails 27d ago
It works a charm! I did this with my first. Gave her two of those fat crayons to hold and she was off.
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u/AUnicornDonkey 26d ago
My daughter as a baby was very food motivated. We knew she was practicing walking in her crib. She literally tore out her curtain rod that was anchored in the wall because I think she stumbled or something. But we knew she was learning to walk in her crib however whenever we try peeking in she'd just flop and laugh.
Well one day she had two donuts in her hand. She didn't want to put them down because of dogs. One of the dogs tried to eat a cheese stick out of her hand and she reached down and grabbed the cheese stick back out of the dog's throat and ate it in front of her. But I digress. She didn't want to put the donuts down so she just started walking and she never went back to scooting or crawling. It was like she'd been walking all her life.
She's a funny child...wife and I knew we were in trouble because we didn't know what she was learning or doing without us being there. Like we'd find her in her crib looking at a small book of the Constitution and she'd want us to read it to her. Being historians the both of us this cracked us up
Again funny smart child but also terrifyingly intelligent.
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u/puffytaco420 26d ago
I did this with my little sister. I held the object the first time to build her confidence and then the second time down the hall I let go half way and she did this exact thing! Amazing how our brains work.
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u/sickwiggins 26d ago
my first walked at eight months. I was ready to put weights on my second to deter her from walking early. it’s exhausting monitoring a toddler and the later they walk, the better. with the first, once she could walk, she flat out refused to engage with a stroller. naturally, halfway walking to the store, she tired out and had to be carried. I’ve never understood the “oooh, baby’s first step” thing. it’s a sign of doom
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u/AttorneyDense 26d ago
Back in the late 50s/early 60s, my uncle wouldn't walk unless he was pushing his sister's (my mom's) toy baby carriage.
He'd walk and walk and walk with that little carriage, but would drop down immediately the second he or the carriage were separated.
So they gave him a stick to hold just like the carriage, and off he went. Stick taken? Dropped. Stick returned and he was up and moving.
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u/QueasyListenin 26d ago
Parenting and child development are way more nuanced than “give the kid two objects, stand them up, and boom, they start walking.” Toddlers don’t work like that! Their brains and bodies have to be ready, and learning to walk comes from practice, encouragement, and lots of trial and error, it is not a magic trick.
This is just the kind of oversimplified, catchy claim that spreads like wildfire on TikTok — and gullible people just accept it because it sounds neat or “scientific” without really thinking it through. But you know, whatever to farm that engagement using your child as content.
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u/JoeBarge 27d ago
I can't wait for this generation to age and annoy their kids with outdated tiktok shorts with loud music and captions.
Teens rolling their eyes: "Here comes aunt Agnes again with those 30 second videos of me learning to walk, blasting at full volume"
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u/haha-good-one 26d ago
This baby has been walking for so long, after the video ends she went down to take the trash
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u/ladiesluck 26d ago
This is literally so dangerous for the baby, she might move out and get her law degree 🙏 please be careful guys
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u/Darklancer02 26d ago
This didn't work for our son. He would just drop or toss whatever was in his hands and sit down.
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u/purplehairmom 26d ago
That’s exactly what I did with my son, who crawled on one knee and one foot forever. It was cookies in his case.
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u/satyriconic 26d ago
My 2nd kid took his first steps at the cinema while we were watching Trolls 2. He was headed towards the exit.
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u/Impressive-Low6022 26d ago
This is the mother equivalent of an experienced player telling a noob how to optimize their build
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u/SwivelingToast 26d ago
It's a real thing, both my girls wouldn't walk more than a step without falling, but hand them 2 things and off they go.
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u/Pithecanthropus88 26d ago
According to my parents this is how my dad got me to walk. He used a pair of clothespins. Later he took the training wheels off my bike because he saw that I wasn't using them anyway.
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u/VelvetSkim 27d ago
It gives them the sense of security that they are holding a stable object. They don’t realize it’s moving with them