Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 3/23/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!cbosgd!ksh From: ksh@cbosgd.UUCP (Karen Summers-Horton) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: "walking" too soon? Message-ID: <186@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Jul-84 18:50:08 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.186 Posted: Sat Jul 28 18:50:08 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 00:00:46 EDT References: <2893@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 9 The statement that 'if a child walks too soon, they get bowed legs' is an old wives tale. Our son walked at 6 and 1/2 months (after having only crawled for 2 weeks). He immediatly walked without supporting himself on other things. This has not harmed his development at all - at twenty months, he counts to 21, and says the alphabet by himself. He also doesn't have bowed legs. Karen Summers-Horton