How Independent Sitting Happens

How Independent Sitting Happens

True self-discovered, baby-led (not taught), independent sitting comes later than many people think–later than common recommendations, which are based on Baby being placed. Here’s how it can happen in a typical progression. Time spent in each element can vary...

The Psychology of Sitting, Part 2: Why do we sit our babies?

To continue our curiosities about psychology that gets set up in the first year alongside movement, first some pondering… If what I have been encouraging in my last posts really is true, then why is its opposite such a cultural norm? I think it is a matter of...

The Psychology of Sitting, Part 1

We have been investigating how babies learn to sit and what it means when we sit them before they can get in and out of it themselves. Let’s delve further . . . Consider what it means emotionally and psychologically—let’s put ourselves “in Baby’s booties,” so to...

Please Don’t Sit the Baby, Part 3: Do What They Do

Exactly how do babies figure out how to sit? What if we put ourselves “in Baby’s shoes”? In Parts 1 & 2, we began looking at how babies actually learn to sit, why it’s best to allow them to discover it themselves rather than prop them in sitting, and how to know...