By EasyHow
How to teach a child to stand on all fours
For the child it is important enough to be able to stand on all fours because of this situation the easiest way without assistance to sit or stand up first to his knees, and then to straight legs using as a support, for example, a sofa.
Instruction
To start, lay baby on your stomach, for example, on the table. Your hand must be located in the region of his chest, slightly elevated above the surface of the table. His other hand bend the leg of the child and move to his stomach the first one and then the other.
It is necessary that with your help, the kid kept his leg in this position for several minutes. The exercise should be repeated about 5-7 times, alternately increasing the amount of time to retain each leg in this position.
Find the apartment (house) the safe and spacious place for baby to nothing fettered in his movements. You can put it on the carpet on his tummy, and his favorite toys close to him so that he clearly saw and he had the desire alone to reach them.
The slightest attempt to get up on all fours you have to help him, to support and create for him a sense of balance.
Note
The hardest part of the position on all fours is on straight arms to keep the weight off. Can also be a problem if the child wants to pull the knees under the stomach. Due to the fact that parents too often put him on his feet. As a consequence, the extensors of the legs get too much stress, the muscle tone increases and the child is hard to relax them. The leg extension is expressed in the form of motor habits and when do they have to bend to pull the knees under the stomach (on all fours), they, on the contrary, straightened. After the child has learned to stand on all fours, he first swings, and then starts to jump out. Then work both feet. After this he is learning sequential movements that are required in order to crawl.
Useful advice
When the child learns to stand on all fours, it will have a quite understandable desire to crawl. Crawl together. Show how this happens by their own example. Because children are a reflection of their parents.
