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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A lot of kids try to drive their foot straight down into the ground and stomp rather than heel-first and rolling their foot as they walk. When they’re babies learning to walk that’s basically how they have to because they have no spatial awareness yet and can only tell their foot is down by feeling the floor. A lot of kids grow out of it, a lot of kids don’t. It’s not really a problem either way.
It’s easy to fix with some simple instruction. At 8, it should be pretty easy, I just had to teach my 6 year old because he would literally shake the house with his stomping and he got the hang of it pretty quick and is much quieter until he decided to run. It helps if you give them fun goals like being able to sneak up on their siblings or parents to scare them.
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