Baby jumpers, walkers, swings, chairs, and bouncers

In an ideal scenario a clean and cleared-up floor is best best place for a baby to play. Babies need the opportunity to explore their bodies and surroundings and having an open and safe place for them to move their limbs and roll around is the most ideal. A lot of products are designed and marketed as desirable devices to keep a baby in a safe place such as jumpers, walkers, swings, chairs, and bouncers but children are not always age appropriate for those devices. A child lacking independent neck and core strength is not ideal for a chair, jumper, or walker and can actually delay a child from gaining independent ability to sit because the child is receiving support from a device instead of learning the limits of their body and how to control their own abdominals and hips. A child learning to walk will learn fast with a walker that does not have a built in chair because they learn to support their own body weight and learn to transition in and out of standing independently instead of having a consistent support right underneath them. Most of these devices targeted for babies are wonderful for around 15 minutes a day, when a parent or caregiver needs to do housework or go to the restroom without worrying that the baby could get injured, but the best option is to have a playard or playpen so the child is safe but has the opportunity to independently move around.