Crawling and Learning Challenges

As parents, sometimes we are caught in the middle of the excitement of having our children achieve their milestones ahead of times, especially when it comes to walking. What we don’t realized is how important crawling is.

Crawling is a natural systematic pattern of development and given the opportunity all infants go through it. These patterns of development are activated by a series of automatic movements called primitive reflexes. These automatic inherent movement are crucial in assisting infants in fully developing the brain and central nervous system. Primitive reflexes begin emerging in utero and continue to surface during the first year of life. As infant reflexes merge into more sophisticated movement patterns, they become inactive or integrated. However when these reflexes remain stuck por active, they create a wide variety of challenges.

Incomplete integration of childhood reflexes is common. They impact the lives of millions of children and adults. They…