Walking Vs. Crawling

To walk or not to walk: that is the question


Carter gave up army crawling in July and does the normal crawl now. He is super fast and gets where he wants to go.........Soooooo he has decided that he will REFUSE to walk or even attempt something that resembles walking. Back in August he loved walking behind his dump truck and pushing it around the house. Then he figured out that he could sit on it and move it with little effort, so his prior walking ceased. He will still walk around the furniture but refuses to stand without holding onto something. He use to walk while holding our fingers. He now considers that too much work. If we ask him to stand and walk he curls his feet up underneath himself and cries. Walking is a form of torture for Carter. Carter NOT walking is a form of torture for his parents. Everyone always says that Carter doesn't walk because he's "big" for his age. Everyone is wrong. Carter doesn't walk because he doesn't want to, because it scares the crap out of him. On the rare occasions that Carter walks behind something or holding onto your hands his eyes are wide with terror and he is literally shaking and fussing. I am trying to remain calm and unbothered by his lack of interest in walking. The Dr. has assured me he will walk when he's ready. After all, he only started "real" crawling 2 months ago. He never wanted to crawl at first but finally he did, and now he can really cruise. My back can't take much more and I cringe everytime he crawls outside with new clothes on. Actually that's a lie. I cringe regardless of what he's wearing because he wears things out so quickly.