Why does this child slip on the floor?
Tip: If mom fixed her own feet (check out those toes), she’d be more aware of these issues…
Answer: Because he is wearing socks. His feet cannot communicate a sense of the ground to his brain because of the socks and the inability to spread the toes within the too-tight socks.
Just throw the socks away!
p.s. A friend of mine proudly shared photos of her granddaughter, but she noted that the child had to wear a helmet due to a concussion from frequent falls. In the photo, I saw the child wearing socks on a slippery tile floor. If someone had the common sense to take off the socks and covered the floor with a thick wool rug with a real rubber underpad, the child’s head would not have hit the floor the same way. Of course, they could also have exchanged the tile floors with wood as the wood is much less damaging for the child falling on it.
Since there’s a pacifier in the first photo, I included a pacifier discussion here.
Pacifiers: How did pacifiers become a 24/7 problem? They became a thing at some point in the last few decades. A baby’s jaw and tooth development depends on not having a pacifier stuck in the mouth. Once you’ve used pacifiers, the baby’s mouth molds around it, so it is hard for them to breathe and settle their jaws together without it.
If you want to see the long-term problem with pacifiers, look up sleep problems for young adults (20s-40s). There is a tidal wave of people who cannot breathe properly. It’s really a weird new problem with an obvious cause. But these same snoring, CPAP-dependent adults use pacifiers with their own babies because they don’t understand what happened to themselves.
If you look at these same “young” adults, you’ll see that they also have a high rate of tooth misalignment. Such tooth misalignment used to be very rare when I was young.
If these adult problems describe you, search for “myo” on my blog. It’s fixable. But it’s better not to create the problem with the next generation!!