Is a baby who can't crawl not smart? Is a baby who can't crawl a sign of stupidity?

Usually, learning to crawl is the first step for babies to learn to walk. Babies who can crawl exercise their limbs during crawling, which is more conducive to the development of their brains. Traditional ideas believe that babies who can crawl are smarter. Today, let's make a scientific analysis to see if this view is correct.

Is it a sign of stupidity if a baby can't crawl?

In fact, the baby can't crawl ≠ stupid

Whether a baby can crawl or not has little to do with IQ. Crawling is a stage in a baby's growth and development. Usually, a baby will want to crawl soon after learning to sit, and once they can crawl, they will want to walk. This is the way children explore the world. However, in the process of growing up, some children will indeed skip the crawling step and go directly to the walking stage, but this does not mean that babies who cannot crawl are not smart. In fact, there is no necessary connection between the two. As long as the baby's overall development is normal, don't worry too much.

Factors that affect your baby's IQ

1. Genetics

Genetics is the primary factor affecting a child's IQ. If both parents have high IQs, the child will generally not be much worse. If the parents are very distantly related, the child's IQ will be relatively high. On the contrary, if the parents are close relatives, the child's IQ may be lower. This is the basic rule of how genetic factors affect the IQ of offspring.

2. Nutrition

Most children drink breast milk after birth, but there are also cases where the mother's milk is insufficient, so the child has to drink milk powder from an early age. However, it can be said that any infant formula milk powder is not as good as breast milk, because breast milk contains many nutrients that can help children increase their resistance and improve their IQ. Of course, if your baby is bottle-fed, you don't have to worry about it. As long as the daily diet is balanced and sufficient, it can also promote the development of the baby's IQ.

3. Weight

Generally speaking, if a child is overweight, especially if it is much over the standard weight, it will affect their IQ. If a child's weight exceeds the normal weight by 20%, then their hearing, comprehension, and brain thinking abilities will decline. In addition, if a child's weight is much lower than the normal weight, the brain's thinking ability will also decline, resulting in a low IQ. Therefore, parents need to pay attention to reasonably adjusting their children's diet and exercise to keep their children's weight at a normal level.

4. Exercise

In the acquired conditions, the amount of exercise is also an important factor affecting children's IQ. Therefore, parents need to pay attention to their children's exercise and let them move around and play games every day. This will help their physical and bone development and improve their IQ. Parents can encourage their children to skip rope, run, or pitch at home. They can also let their children learn to dance or do aerobics. These aerobic exercises are good for health.

5. Family environment

Generally speaking, the happiness index of a family will also affect the IQ of children. If the relationship between husband and wife is harmonious and the life is happy, the children will feel happy, they are easy to be satisfied, and they are rarely affected by other factors during their growth and development. Therefore, the development of the brain is less hindered, and the children are naturally smarter and healthier.

A baby who can crawl must be smart

For children, crawling is an excellent whole-body exercise that can promote the growth and development of all parts of the body.

When a child crawls, his head and neck are raised, his chest and abdomen are off the ground, and his limbs are used to support the weight of his body. This exercises the muscles of the chest, abdomen, back and limbs, and promotes bone growth, creating a good foundation for future standing and walking. In addition, crawling is a more intense activity for children and consumes a lot of energy. It has been measured that crawling consumes twice as much energy as sitting and twice as much energy as lying down. This helps children eat more and sleep better, thereby promoting physical growth and development.

Crawling also greatly promotes children's psychological development and the development of their intellectual potential.

When a child is in a swaddling cloth, the range of vision and hearing is very small. When sitting or lying, the range of vision and hearing is slightly expanded, but the stimulation is still not much. When the child is crawling, the range of contact is expanded from the place where he lies to the whole bed and even the whole room, which changes the baby's spatial position. He can face the world positively, actively contact and recognize things, increase the sound stimulation and object stimulation of contact, which is beneficial to the development of the baby's hearing, vision, balance organs and nervous system. At the same time, crawling greatly expands the baby's cognitive scope and creates conditions for the baby to establish, expand and deepen the initial understanding of the external world. The posture changes from static to dynamic, and the range changes from point to surface. Vision and hearing are developed, and thinking, language and imagination are also developed and improved accordingly. Crawling has special significance for the development of the baby's brain and the establishment of spatial concepts.

Modern medical research believes that crawling training is an important means to prevent sensory integration disorders in children during their growth period.

Sensory integration is a kind of proprioception. All the skills people usually learn are based on proprioception. Good proprioception is attributed to the vestibular system in the brain integrating vision, hearing, touch and other senses and flexibly controlling the coordinated activities of muscles in various parts of the body. Crawling training is extremely beneficial for controlling the coordination of eyes, hands and feet. Through crawling training, the development of the baby's brain can be promoted and the intellectual potential of children can be developed.

In addition, some researchers have found through comparative observations of babies of the same age who have learned to crawl and those who have not learned to crawl that babies who can crawl are flexible, agile, cheerful, curious, and full of energy; while babies who crawl less or cannot crawl, due to less exposure to new things, often appear to be more rigid, slow, slow in movement, and easily irritable. In the process of treatment mainly based on "crawling", it was found that those who crawl well can also walk well, learn to speak quickly, and have strong ability to recognize words and read. For this reason, they believe that crawling can promote brain development and advocate that the earlier the child crawls, the better.

Therefore, parents should use a variety of conditions to let their babies practice crawling.

Crawling in the game

In order to increase your baby's interest in crawling, you may want to combine crawling with games. Here are two methods:

Learning to climb the slope method: Parents stack the quilt and pillow into various shapes of different heights, pile them in the middle of the bed, and then let the baby crawl from one end of the bed to the other. Parents can help the baby on both sides of the bed and cheer for the baby. If the baby crawls well, he should be praised or rewarded.

The method of saving small animals is to roll up the quilt or mat into a tube, and each parent holds the quilt or mat at one end to prevent it from collapsing and blocking the "cave". Put a little white rabbit or other animal toy at one end of the "cave". During the game, parents can imitate the calls of fierce animals such as tigers and lions, encourage the baby to not be afraid of the dark, crawl through the cave, and save the poor little white rabbit.