WHEN BABY WALKS.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 9, 24 July 1930, Page 6

WHEN BABY WALKS.

{ JOon't try to force a child to walk until his natural instinct is that direction manifests itself. It is far safer to leave a backward child; alone. If a - child shows neither the ability nor the disere to walk, remember that this is often Nature ?s metiod of protect ing his legs until his bones are sufficiently hardened' and developed, If a ejhild has made no effoTt to walk by the time that he is fifteen montJhs of age, medieail advice should be sptrght, as there may be some easily remediable cause. Always allow a child to make his awn unaided efforts to walk and do not interfere with >his necessary preliminary exercises of crawling and tumxbling.

Don't tie a scarf or wrap arbtmd his chest by which to hold him, and thins facilitate his efforts to walk. Suck a practice can easily produce modification and even serious deformity in the. shape of the chest.

By all means save the eMM from bad falls, and rescue him-, from perilous positions, but -remember that some, tiny tumbles are normal and also neeessaxy.