Re: I can't find actual scientific studies on the web
Vivien Send a noteboard - 26/04/2012 03:45:40 AM
I do find statements all over the place like this on parenting sites, though:
Crawling builds on all of the earlier skills of developmental movement. The diagonal movements of crawling and spiral turns show us the action of nerve fibers crossing over between the right brain and left brain. These connections linking the cerebral cortex are vital for language, reading, writing and math. Good communication between the brain hemispheres is essential to all problem solving and complex thinking such as sciences and creative work. Ability to see the whole and the part, and all their relationships, is developed through crawling.
Crawling builds on all of the earlier skills of developmental movement. The diagonal movements of crawling and spiral turns show us the action of nerve fibers crossing over between the right brain and left brain. These connections linking the cerebral cortex are vital for language, reading, writing and math. Good communication between the brain hemispheres is essential to all problem solving and complex thinking such as sciences and creative work. Ability to see the whole and the part, and all their relationships, is developed through crawling.
You know you can find *all* kinds of statements on parenting sites... Of course you do, you're a parent. I did do some googling on this topic today and what I did learn is crawling is related to stomach vs. back sleeping. Apparently in US, it's considered unsafe for a baby to sleep on the stomach. However, being on the stomach is likely to lead to crawling. So, you have to weigh the possible risk of stomach sleeping vs. the risks of the baby not getting enough crawling in. And apparently some babies who always sleep on the backs never crawl at all.
Books for very small children: suggestions?
- 20/04/2012 12:19:39 AM
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Really, before 18 months you're wasting your time
- 20/04/2012 01:26:05 AM
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I dunno. I really enjoyed books when I was that young
- 20/04/2012 03:12:29 AM
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At a year and a half?
- 20/04/2012 06:18:01 PM
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I don't remember reading quite that young, but I do remember not long after that.
- 20/04/2012 09:35:11 PM
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Color me slightly skeptical.
- 21/04/2012 01:17:51 PM
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I double checked. I was confusing it with another event. I was about 2.5 *NM*
- 22/04/2012 12:19:09 AM
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Similar experience here...
- 20/04/2012 07:04:51 PM
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Yah, I was a bit like your niece
- 20/04/2012 09:30:02 PM
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Re: Yah, I was a bit like your niece
- 20/04/2012 11:48:12 PM
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Doesn't need to be an extended period of time, though. A few minutes is enough at the beginning.
- 23/04/2012 12:42:23 PM
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No problem, if you just want to flush money down a toilet.
- 23/04/2012 02:29:57 PM
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Re: No problem, if you just want to flush money down a toilet.
- 23/04/2012 03:32:22 PM
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Look, it's useless to discuss at this point but let's have the discussion again in 2 years.
- 23/04/2012 04:39:47 PM
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I'm really interested in the evidence for the crawling thing.
- 25/04/2012 08:11:31 PM
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I can't find actual scientific studies on the web
- 25/04/2012 09:56:14 PM
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Re: I can't find actual scientific studies on the web
- 26/04/2012 03:45:40 AM
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anyone who thinks an infant sleeping on its stomach is dangerous is behind the times.
- 26/04/2012 01:51:59 PM
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If there was a big ad campaign in the UK about this then no-one told my medical team.
- 26/04/2012 07:40:48 PM
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Hmmm. *shrug* I don't know. I trust this professor to have his facts straight.
- 26/04/2012 08:01:53 PM
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Possible answer is difference between Scottish and English health systems.
- 26/04/2012 08:28:38 PM
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weird. maybe trends have swung back the other way.
- 26/04/2012 10:01:01 PM
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I hope you don't have it mixed up...
- 26/04/2012 10:18:00 PM
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blagh. maybe I do...I hope not. I hate it when that happens. let me pull out that notebook...
- 27/04/2012 12:01:47 AM
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Re: Look, it's useless to discuss at this point but let's have the discussion again in 2 years.
- 26/04/2012 01:39:25 PM
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OH! Another suggestion!
- 20/04/2012 03:36:45 AM
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I LOVE that book.
- 23/04/2012 12:44:08 PM
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I...actually had a really long post at one point. I don't know where it went
- 23/04/2012 02:43:25 PM
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- 23/04/2012 02:43:25 PM
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Books by Ruth Brown
- 20/04/2012 04:26:18 PM
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I loved books like that too. That had little "Easter Eggs" hidden in the pictures ^_^ *NM*
- 20/04/2012 05:29:50 PM
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*NM*