Crawl
The Bug is the movement of the child on hands and knees or lower legs, where the child picks up the hull from the ground. It is the next stage of locomotion after crawling and begins around the age of ten. When crawling, the child's muscles and coordination skills are trained. With the beginning of crawling and increased mobility, a child increasingly begins to explore his environment.
The way many animals move, especially insects , arachnids and crabs , is also referred to as crawling .
Importance of crawling
Most children learn to crawl in the second half of their first year of life, but crawling is not an essential requirement for learning to walk freely . Some children replace crawling with shaping the seal or pushing the body forward while sitting ("Porutscher"). Even after learning to walk, many children still crawl for some time.
Developmental psychologists repeatedly emphasize the importance of crawling for the development of a child's basic motor skills. The children automate cross movements while crawling by moving parts of the left and right sides of the body in opposite directions at the same time. This trains the right and left hemispheres to work together . This interaction is important for many areas of development , e.g. B. when learning to read and write .
The Zurich long-term studies of around 700 children, led by Remo H. Largo since the mid-1970s , show that around 13% of children choose other modes of transport (seals, rollers, Porutschen, etc.). The studies show that this has no effect on the later development or school performance of the children.
literature
- Remo H. Largo: Baby Years. Development and upbringing in the first four years. Piper, 4th edition 2007, ISBN 978-3492051248
Web links
- How important is crawling as a development step? On: elternimnetz.de , a website of the Bavarian State Youth Welfare Office
- Basic motor skills: the foundation of a person's emotional and spiritual development. On: Medizinfo.de , dump from January 30, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ What, your child can't crawl yet? On: faz.net from February 1, 2008
- ↑ Remo H. Largo: Understanding the child and his game. On: spielundzukunft.de , dump from April 24, 2019