Maria
de Fátima Soares de Arruda Nienke
Undergraduate
student in Biomedicine at Unifatecie . Email: fatinhabanneg@gmail.com
Sérgio
Rodrigues de Souza
Educator.
Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences. Post-PhD in Psychology. Email: srgrodriguesdesouza@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This article addresses
the issue of the impact of baby walkers on children's neuropsychomotor
development. Its scientific relevance lies in the need to discuss ways of
providing comprehensive care to children in the sensorimotor development phase.
Its social relevance lies in the opportunity to provide a broad public with
scientific knowledge and discussions about the negative impact of this device
on children's entire physical structure, influencing creative performance,
learning and problem-solving ability. This is a subject of extreme scientific
relevance and public interest, with few studies taking a holistic approach to
it. This is a bibliographical research, based on traditional authors on the
subject of childhood and supported by extensive observation of babies in the
sensorimotor development phase, at different socioeconomic levels. The baby
walker, even though it is a very old device in human history and is widely
accepted by parents because it provides comfort to them and not to the
children, is still an object that poses great risk to users, such as accidents
and traumas, which can be fatal and prevent the healthy and regular development
of children, both physically and cognitively, intellectually and creatively,
interfering in the process of building children's autonomy. We sought to
describe the situations of risk and deformations that it can cause to the
child's body structure, as well as possible future problems related to
resistance, considering that the absence of physical exercises that strengthen
the bones and the cardiac and pulmonary muscles that the child would naturally
have to do until reaching the stage where he or she can walk upright is no
longer performed.
Keywords: Baby walker. Phylogenetic development. Neuropsychomotor development. Strategies for overcoming natural challenges.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
janeiro 23, 2026
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