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Early walking and type of floor?

musicalsilvermusicalsilver member
edited May 2014 in June 2013 Moms
One of the ladies at work was speculating about whether or not the type of flooring in your house has any correlation with the speed with which LO learns how to walk. I'm curious to see if there's any merit to thinking that harder floors lead to earlier walking to avoid banging up knees while crawling ...
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Early walking and type of floor? 125 votes

LO is already walking and we have primarily carpet.
5% 7 votes
LO is already walking and we have a mix of carpet and hard flooring.
20% 26 votes
LO is already walking and we have primarily hard flooring.
8% 11 votes
LO is not walking yet and we have primarily carpet.
10% 13 votes
LO is not walking yet and we have a mix of carpet and hard flooring.
20% 26 votes
LO is not walking yet and we have primarily hard flooring.
28% 35 votes
Lurking from another board, so my LO's abilities would skew your poll/I have no LO.
5% 7 votes
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  • BC&LMBC&LM member
    LO is walking. If I remember correctly, he started around 10.5 months and is now a week away from being one. We have hardwood floors, but we also have a very large area rug on the area where he walks the most. He can walk on either type of flooring, though.
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  • ilovemarfailovemarfa member
    No waking here her yet at almost 11 months. We have tile and hardwood. Ds1 walked at 1 year and I'm sure ds2 will as well but if he doesn't, that's fine by me. Kids walk when they are ready.
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  • BbyCarter13BbyCarter13 member
    Personally, I would correlate carpet and early walking to avoid carpet burn on the legs.
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  • bumpuser8448316bumpuser8448316 member
    DS could walk holding something (push toy) at 9 months and was a full time walker at 10 moths. DD is almost 11 months and just started crawling, no attempts at walking yet. Flooring has nothing to do with it IMO. We've got carpet and tile

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  • megaroo64megaroo64 member
    B is not quite walking yet, and we have a mixture of hard wood and carpet- but outside, he does this funny bear crawl action so his knees don't touch the concrete.  
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  • musicalsilvermusicalsilver member
    I never said that I bought into this, I was just curious what the results would be.

    And I have to say, despite all the skepticism shown, the results seem to pan out in favor of hard floors correlating with more early walking.

    There are more than twice as many walkers in the hard floor category than carpet category.  

    Yes, our sample size is small, but hey, anecdotally, maybe there might be some correlation here.

    Of course, we all know that correlation =/= causation, so there's probably nothing to this, but yay for clicky polls!
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  • BC&LMBC&LM member
    edited May 2014
    musicalsilver said:
    I never said that I bought into this, I was just curious what the results would be.

    And I have to say, despite all the skepticism shown, the results seem to pan out in favor of hard floors correlating with more early walking.

    There are more than twice as many walkers in the hard floor category than carpet category.  

    Yes, our sample size is small, but hey, anecdotally, maybe there might be some correlation here.

    Of course, we all know that correlation =/= causation, so there's probably nothing to this, but yay for clicky polls!
    See I would have thought the opposite because hardwood is so darn slippery and carpet is not!

    ETA: Plus, if you add the carpet only votes to the mixed flooring votes, more are walking than just hard flooring.  I doubt many people have just carpets because most kitchens are tiled. (Just playing devil's advocate!)
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  • musicalsilvermusicalsilver member
    BC&LM said:



    See I would have thought the opposite because hardwood is so darn slippery and carpet is not!


    ETA: Plus, if you add the carpet only votes to the mixed flooring votes, more are walking than just hard flooring.  I doubt many people have just carpets because most kitchens are tiled. (Just playing devil's advocate!)
    I agree - the mixed flooring is totally a confounding factor here. And I'm not bothered if the results go one way or the other ( impartiality is important here, right?), so I appreciate the devil's advocate part you're playing here :-)
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  • ASmallWonderASmallWonder member
    Mostly hardwood here and he hauls ASS crawling and is covered in bruises.  No correlation here lol
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  • musicalsilvermusicalsilver member
    Sympkin said:
    musicalsilver said:
    See I would have thought the opposite because hardwood is so darn slippery and carpet is not!

    ETA: Plus, if you add the carpet only votes to the mixed flooring votes, more are walking than just hard flooring.  I doubt many people have just carpets because most kitchens are tiled. (Just playing devil's advocate!)
    I agree - the mixed flooring is totally a confounding factor here. And I'm not bothered if the results go one way or the other ( impartiality is important here, right?), so I appreciate the devil's advocate part you're playing here :-)
    I demand moar data!

    High pile vs. low pile. Tile vs. linoleum. Hardwood vs. laminate!
    But then we'd dilute out the sparse number of votes!  Maybe if I go over to the 12-24 month board ... but I don't think that one is too active.  

    I totally want more data too!!  We have to be properly scientific about this!
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  • punky917punky917 member
    We have a ranch house with a finished basement. The whole upstairs (minus bedrooms) is hardwood/tile. The whole basement is carpet. She walks on both,  but seems to be more comfortable walking on the carpet.
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  • cafecremecafecreme member
    we have mostly carpet, and she's been walking since she was about a week shy of 11 months. 

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