Pushing Too Hard?

Eek!  So, I’d never really thought about it this way, and though it may be true – I was still insulted when somebody pointed it out.  And honestly for some things it had been in the back of my mind, but not for milestone things…  So here it goes…

When Maggie was about 4 months old, I Googled how to “teach her” to roll over.  You know, an instructional video on what to do to get the ball rolling…  And it definitely helped.  By the time she was five months old she could roll front to back, back to front, right to left, left to right…  well, you get the idea.

Recently it was time to start working on sitting up…  but she wasn’t having it.  So once again I turned to Google and I had been approaching it wrong so I started following instructions and bam!  In the last two weeks she’s gone from 100% supported to over 60 seconds at a time of sitting up on her own.  Fantastic!

Now that we’ve got the hang of that, why not get started on crawling?  There are a few babies out there her age that already have it down pat, so why not get the ball rolling on that as well?  So over the course of the next few weeks we’ll spend 10-20 minutes a day working on crawling.  She has the concept down with her legs already…  It’s the arms that she’s struggling with.

So my question/concern is…  Isn’t this my job as a parent?  To aid in her learning new skills and earning some independence, if you will?  Am I being too “pushy”?

I’d love to know your opinion!  And don’t worry, I don’t get offended when I ask for it.  Haha.

Sincerely,

~Nikki