What are the benefits of training your baby's balance ability?

Some babies start talking and walking early, and have the ability to recognize things early, but some babies still cannot speak fluently at the age of two or three, and they often fall when walking. Studies have found that this difference between babies is closely related to our ability to balance. Many people think that the brain controls our balance, but in fact there is a balance organ in our ears, which controls our body balance. Let’s take a look at the benefits of training your baby’s balance ability.

Maintaining balance is not just a physical thing, it's also about all the senses in your brain. Every time your baby raises his little head, the brain evaluates and responds to the stimulus, and the role of the nerves in this process cannot be underestimated.

When a person is born, he or she has more than 100 million nerve cells, but these nerve cells can only function when they are connected to each other. Much of the sensory stimulation children receive in their early years is obtained through their balance organs, which stimulate the connection between nerve cells and promote blood flow to the brain. The connections between nerves are very complex, and the constantly connected nerves enable information to be transmitted to the brain faster and more accurately.

A sense of orientation, the ability to concentrate and determine direction are all abilities that children need when engaging in other mental or physical work. For example, when children are looking at a clock, we can ask them where the long hand is and where the short hand is, on the left? On the right? On the top or below? For another example, when children are recognizing letters, they can distinguish between "M" and "W". This means that when children cannot distinguish similar letters or words, parents should consider whether this is a problem of reading or a problem of needing more development of the sense of balance. If a child's balance organ is stimulated frequently, his brain will be particularly sensitive. On the contrary, years of research have found that children with poor vision, hearing and sense of balance will also have delayed intellectual development.

If we find that our baby has problems such as slow speech, uncoordinated movements, and easy falling compared to babies of the same age, we must go to the hospital for relevant examinations and consultations in time. We should also take our children to outdoor sports more often, expose them to more new things, and participate in more activities, which is also very effective in improving the body's balance ability.