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The emotional boost for mastering the standing position

Mastering the standing position and the verticality strengthens the feeling of mastery on

the environment and puts also the child in a new situation of instability in managing

balance. Different objects are used to sustain the body and to make the first movements: at
the beginning going up and down, then passing from a supporting object to another one,

and then trying to set up the movement pushing oneself and moving autonomously in the

environment making the first steps. In this situation of physical instability, the involvement
and motivation of the child are crucial for him/her to acquire new motor patterns.

February, Teodora 13 months old February, Riccardo 10 January, Noemi 12 months old
Tommaso 12 months old months old