LEARNING TO WALK

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 50, 23 February 1943, Page 3

LEARNING TO WALK

Have you ever wondered why it is that a baby must learn to walk? Many animals are able to run about as soon as they are born. A chick walks out of its egg; a young foal is soon frisking around its mother. A bal)5 r , however, is born quite! helpless, and; it requires; a long time 1 to learn to toddle along. A baby is able to grip a stick at once, and to hang on with its hands, and it soon learns to crawl; but walking erect is one of the great, feats which the human race alone has accomplished, and it does not come so soon, or so naturall}*" to the baby as some of our other habits. Apart from, this, though a baby does not need to walk at once. Nature knows that the mother and father have arms to carry it, and that 'the father and mother can be trusted, not to leave the baby lying about. May we not consider baby's; helplessness as a compliment to its parents.