HOW TO TEACH A CHILD TO WALK

The infant's health is basically dependent on exercise. Naturally, the nurse's arms will be its first workout. It will enjoy rolling and kicking around on the couch after a month or two, when it starts to slumber less during the day. This allows it to move its limbs freely, and this, along with carrying out in the open air, is all the exercise it needs at this time. But eventually, the infant will make its first steps toward walking. The go-cart, leading-strings, and other methods for teaching a child to walk should not be used because of their propensity to be harmful. Flatness of the chest, confined lungs, distorted spines, and deformed legs are just a few of the many negative effects that frequently result from these methods. This is explained by the bones' relative softness and malleability during infancy. If these devices expose the bones to bearing the weight of the body too soon, they will yield like an elastic stick under pressure, which will cause them to naturally curve and distort.

It is vitally important for the young and experienced mother to keep this in mind because she will likely encourage and prolong the child's early attempts at walking without any consideration for the potential harm they may cause. As a result, many parents have had to lament the deformity they themselves have caused.

It might be appropriate to mention that even after a clearly discernible curvature has occurred, such deformation can be corrected if it is promptly identified. The condition should be treated by using methods that will energize the body and improve the child's general health (a daily dip in a cold bath or a saltwater sponge soak will be found to be noticeably effective), as well as by avoiding the original cause of the distortion—never letting the child stand up. The only method to achieve the latter goal is to enclose both legs in a large stocking; this will effectively serve the intended purpose while also allowing the legs to be fully and freely exercised. Following this plan for a few months will result in the extremities no longer being deformed, the bones becoming firmer, the muscles becoming stronger, and the child being able to stand up again without the risk of the bad continuing or coming back.

Allowing a child to educate themselves how to walk is the best method because it will do so easily. It will first start to crawl; this uses every muscle in the body, doesn't exhaust the child, doesn't put pressure on the bones, but it gives the child vigor and power, and is therefore very helpful. After some time, once it has the ability, it will want to do more. It will try to stand up by using a chair, and even though it will keep failing, it will keep trying until it succeeds. This teaches it how to first get up off the ground and then how to balance while still holding onto whatever it has grabbed. It will then demonstrate its independence by balancing on its own without assistance. It will grab a chair or anything else nearby when it dares to move as far as the boundaries of its support will allow because it is still afraid of moving its limbs without support. When, after many trials, he will feel secure in his ability to balance himself and he will run alone, this little adventure will be repeated day after day with increased exultation. It now takes time for this gradual self-education to take place, during which the muscles and bones become stronger and are ultimately completely capable of supporting the weight of the body.

during infancy, exercise

When a kid is strong enough to engage in active exercise, he can hardly spend enough time outside; the more he becomes accustomed to it, the better able he will be to withstand the whims of the weather. Children should also always be permitted to amuse themselves freely because they typically engage in the exercise that is best suited to promoting body growth and development. Every muscle in the body gets its fair portion of active exercise during their youthful indulgence in sports, which leads to unrestricted growth, vigor, and health.

However, if a child has a delicate and strumous constitution and is too weak to exercise sufficiently on foot, and to such a constitution, exercise and pure air breathing are essential for the improvement of health, and without them all other efforts will fail, riding a donkey or pony is the best alternative. A delicate kid will always find this type of exercise to be of immeasurable benefit because it stimulates the mind and works all the body's muscles in a gentle way that leaves little room for fatigue.

However, horseback exercises are most helpful in cases where the constitution has a propensity toward pulmonary consumption, whether from hereditary or unintentional causes. It is advantageous here both through its impact on overall health as well as more specifically on the lungs themselves. There is no question that exercise gives the lungs the strength and good health they need to operate. Now, this is accomplished while riding, and the body experiences little weariness. It is necessary for the lungs to expand freely and evenly during full inspiration; this preserves their healthy structure by keeping all airways clear and open; it also prevents pulmonary circulation obstruction and more fully accommodates the necessary chemical action on the blood by converting, during each act of respiration, a sufficient portion of the entire air contained in the lungs, all important objects, and all other substances.

Location:

Berbagi :