The quicker they can sit up, the faster they can learn and explore.
A study published in the journal Pediatrics highlights the importance of early motor skills as an agent of change over time. The same findings suggest a cause and effect relationship between motor skills and subsequent language learning in developing infants. Better control of the self-sitting posture is correlated with better hand coordination in reaching for objects.
Akhgar Ghassabian, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health and lead author of the study explained to CNN, “Our findings are consistent with those of longitudinal studies performed a few decades ago, showing that the age a child achieved major milestones of standing or walking were predictors of later child performance in memory.”
Want to know more? Download the entire study here.
The quicker they can sit up, the faster they can learn and explore.
A study published in the journal Pediatrics highlights the importance of early motor skills as an agent of change over time. The same findings suggest a cause and effect relationship between motor skills and subsequent language learning in developing infants. Better control of the self-sitting posture is correlated with better hand coordination in reaching for objects.
Akhgar Ghassabian, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health and lead author of the study explained to CNN, “Our findings are consistent with those of longitudinal studies performed a few decades ago, showing that the age a child achieved major milestones of standing or walking were predictors of later child performance in memory.”
Want to know more? Download the entire study here.
Summary
At 6 months, babies are already making invisible calculations about the things around them. They are assessing the spatial and physical properties of objects, how far out of reach it is, and if they will use one or two hands to hold an object. Again, the ability to sit without support, control their core, and handle more objects, is believed to create a cascade of benefits for cognitive and physical development. In many ways, it is logical — the more a baby can interact with the world, the more the baby can learn from it. Researchers have found that sittings skills around this period were correlated with better vocabularies at 10 and 14 months of age. So sit your baby up at different zones of the home and let them interact with their environment.