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>>>It's not as if infants need to be trained to roll over. They will do it now or later. Once that infant is 2, they'll be able to roll over, barring physical handicaps.<<<

Maybe they can but don't want to and the parent will never see their
infant do it. I didn't see Karl roll over once. (I wasn't looking for
it either but if I had, it might have worried me some.)

I don't think rolling over is a stage but something the majority of
babies do of their own accord. So much so that it's in baby books with
a date line for the mother to record the details if she wants to.

I'm not saying there ARE no stages. I'm just saying that not
everything is necessarily a stage just because many babies do
something.

~Katherine



On 6/28/10, Jenny Cyphers <jenstarc4@...> wrote:
> ***I am wondering what you mean by not putting an infant into a situation
> where they can be frustrated and fail. Are you saying that we should try to
> spare them frustration as much as possible while they learn? If they are
> struggling to roll over, to pick them up?***
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> Yes, spare your kids frustration as much as possible while they learn, which
> is really all the time (this list IS always learning). Frustration is an
> inevitable part of life, it will happen at some point that a child is
> frustrated and there may be little a parent can do to change things, other
> than being there and being kind and sympathetic. So, anytime a parent can
> avoid frustrating a kid, that seems like a positive good thing! When my
> babies struggled to do things, I didn't sit there and watch them struggle, I
> helped them, either by handing them the thing they wanted, or sitting them
> up to see, or rolling them over, or picking them up to be held and loved up.
> It's not as if infants need to be trained to roll over. They will do it
> now or later. Once that infant is 2, they'll be able to roll over, barring
> physical handicaps.
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