Tag: ancient

• Crawling is Cultural

  

  What if crawling is unnecessary? There are cultures in which babies are not allowed to crawl and are never given floor time. What effect does that have on their development?

  Aradia Wyndham

  July 24, 2019

  Babies, Blog, Video

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• The Aymara People of the Andes

  

  Learn how the Aymara tradition of carrying their babies is reflected in their concept of time and language– and how infant carriers built empires.

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 16, 2019

  Babies, Blog

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