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Title: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: lilybug25 on May 11, 2011, 01:36:05 am
For the last week my 16 month old daughter has been trying to do somersault. On my bed or couch she can do a kind of half one but now she is trying to do them on the floor. I am worried about her neck and I know she is getting fustrated, so is there any one who can help me by telling me a step by step of how to show a 1.5 yrs old how to do a somersault.
Title: Re: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: RachelC on May 11, 2011, 17:56:07 pm
I always remind little ones to watch their belly button the whole time to help keep their neck tucked.
Title: Re: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: jakobsmommy on June 07, 2011, 20:03:28 pm
thats a good one...ive been wondering this myself!
Title: Re: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: lilybug25 on June 07, 2011, 21:32:13 pm
She has now mastered the somersault, lots of practice on my bed then I got her 5 yr old cousin to come over and show her how on the carpet. It a all day thing now  ::)
Title: Re: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: ~Sara~ on June 07, 2011, 21:42:40 pm
LOL, very cute!  DS tries to do it, but he can get his feet close enough to his body, so we still help him.  He's like his mommy and grandad: we're both pathetically not flexible!
Title: Re: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: nwmm on June 08, 2011, 01:23:25 am
The song we learned in gymnastics at that age was, "hands down.  Touch the ground.  Roll over.". Not quite step but might help a bit.
Title: Re: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: We Three on June 08, 2011, 01:52:45 am
Thats so cute!!!!   ;D  I wonder where she got the idea from? 

 In gymnastics they have dd place her hands on the ground in front of her..(just like the above song!), then squat down and lower her head, then tuck her head and roll!
Title: Re: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: nwmm on June 08, 2011, 01:56:07 am
"head down.  touch the ground....". Sorry.  Been a few years since I had to sing that song.
Title: Re: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: Jaime on June 10, 2011, 00:36:53 am
is anybody else reading that song in a winnie-the-pooh voice?   :P :)
Title: Re: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: ~Sara~ on June 10, 2011, 00:52:37 am
is anybody else reading that song in a winnie-the-pooh voice?
"'Cause I am short, fat--proud of that!" ;)
Title: Re: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: lilybug25 on June 10, 2011, 03:29:24 am
You ladies crack me right up.
Title: Re: Can anyone help me with a weird question
Post by: RachelC on June 10, 2011, 11:55:56 am
Well now I'm hungry...  :)

When I up, down and touch the ground
It puts me in the mood,
Up, down and touch the ground
In the mood for food