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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quietly walking can be cumbersome for adults as well.
the level of articulation & grace that goes into walking with dampened effect is highly layered. walking at its base principle is falling:
[(fall) {stop} (fall) {stop}]
each {stop} is accompanied by a transmutation of energy; kinetic to sound.
so the simplest i can state this case would be that as we age & acquire more experience in the motion, our system of falling becomes more autistic. we (fall) less on the flat of our feet & (rest) more on the heel. the heel then rolls onto the flat which minimizes the decibel output.
children are, very simply, stomping because much like their ability to communicate, their motor functions have yet to mature into the sophistication we as adults have only come to know for some time ourselves.
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