You can clearly tell when my eight year old is walking through the house. He sounds like the cliche: a herd of elephants. He’s not the only one I’ve noticed either. When my sister was his age she walked heavily. Why are kids so heavy?
What’s up with that?
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I think a big part of it is that they don’t need to, because nothing hurts (yet) from walking like that all the time. (combined with a big lack of self-awareness and self-consciousness, of course)
My Mom is tiny (110 pounds) and when she was younger, she was absurdly loud. “I walk quickly because I’m busy!” (with self-inflicted pointless chores, but that’s another story) Way, way louder than my 200+ pound Dad or my far heavier ass.
As she got older and developed serious joint problems, she started to step so much more gently it’d be funny if it wasn’t for, you know, the crippling damage.
If I walked like an 8 year old kid, it’d be like doing a high-impact workout every second of the day in terms of stress on what’s left of my joint cartilage. (And I might actually damage older floors where the boards have gotten a little loose and cracked. I’m pretty sure if I did it on the Subway, or out after dark, some people would run away.)
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