I Counted: A New Walker Falls About 17 Times an Hour On Purpose

Toddler learning to walk and falling — how babies learn locomotion

Seventeen. That’s the number I kept landing on when I went down a full rabbit hole about how toddlers learn to walk one night after my youngest had what felt like her four hundredth tumble before lunch. Seventeen falls per hour. And that’s not the number for a kid who is struggling, or tired, or … Read more