Crap therapy

So, I was reading online ways to encourage your child to crawl. Owen is 8 months now, and this the average age for crawling to begin. We have rolling down to an art form (to the point where sometimes if I look away for a minute, Owen can end up all the way on the other side of the room, under a table- each heart attack is great fun!). A lot of what they say is to tease your child by placing a toy just out of their reach. Ok, they don't say tease but let's face it, that it is tormenting. I have done this many times (I never said I was above tormenting) but Owen has figured out how to roll to the toy. Its almost like a 3 point turn: he rolls to his tummy, back to his back but on a slight angle and one more time head-on on his tummy and BINGO! Toy with in reach. But I am not sweating it too much. He is showing signs of trying to move forward (literally and figuratively). He is sticking his bum up in the air but accidentally rolls over instead of inching forward.

But the point of this blog is "Crawl Therapy".

On the web site I was checking out for crawling help, someone had posted about crawl therapy. Will wonders never cease. You see some babies crawl, some scoot around on their butt, some roll, and some skip it all together and go to cruising (grabbing on to furniture and making their way around the room by walking). Apparently those that skip it are now being deemed developmentally delayed. They suffer from poor comprehension skills, trouble reading and spelling. They are now being enrolled into crawl therapy to teach them to crawl, even though they already know how to walk. Ok, I thought this was the absolute stupidest example of parenting gone wild. I never crawled. I scooted. So apparently I am not up to par with my peers. I have no problem with crawl therapy if your child isn't doing anything to get mobile. But a child who skips ahead, who decides they don't need to waste their time on their hands and knees...They are supposedly special needs?? Huh?

I just had to share the ridiculous parenting world we live in . And on to the photo of my slow baby.