I am not in favor of designing a “laboratory” environment so that children grow up with the greatest number of support for their development, but it is convenient to know if, in case it has any difficulty or delay in evolution, we can modify some factor of its context to facilitate overcoming it.
It is the case of language, in which circumstances can occur in which we are not facilitating its development and we can change some habit to do so. According to a recent British investigation, the orientation of the stroller influences the language of our children
In the study, they supervised the way in which the parents placed the child in the chair (oriented towards the path or towards the mother) and the attitude they both had (mother and son) in the communicative aspect.
They observed it was much more frequent to place the child facing the street, but when this orientation changed, the communication opportunities doubled.
There is another aspect of the investigation that creates some doubts. They noted that children who were looking at their parents slept more frequently than those who were oriented towards the route and blamed it on that they could feel more secure. Another possibility occurs to me: that children who look towards the street are more attentive to what they see because it is a context with more stimuli (by extension, diversity and novelty) than those they have with their parents, and therefore they sleep less .
What seems very sensible is that a child will try to communicate more the more opportunities for visual interaction with reference people, so this simple change (the orientation of the stroller) could be good advice for those concerned parents because Your child does not communicate enough or with the skills he should.
