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Best for kids to face parents in buggy - report
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 21 - 11 - 2008


Children pushed in buggies which
face away from their parents may suffer long-term emotional and
language problems, Reuters quoted a study published on Friday.
The research, believed to be the first of its kind, found
that children who were not facing the person that pushed them
were less likely to talk, laugh and interact with their parents
compared with those babies that did.
The findings were based on a study of 2,722 parents and
babies and an experiment where 20 babies were wheeled in buggies
for a mile, facing their parents for half the journey and facing
away for the other half.
Parents using face-to-face buggies were twice as likely to
talk to their children while the heart rates of the babies fell
and they were twice as likely to fall asleep, an indicator that
they were feeling relaxed and safe.
Additionally only one baby out of the 20 studied laughed
while sitting in an away-facing buggy.
"Our data suggests that for many babies today, life in a
buggy is emotionally impoverished and possibly stressful," said
Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, Developmental Psychologist at Scotland's
Dundee University who carried out the research.
"Stressed babies grow into anxious adults."
The study, which was published by National Literacy Trust as
part of its Talk To Your Baby campaign, found that 62 percent of
all children observed travelled in away-facing buggies, rising
to 86 percent between the ages of 1 and 2.
Zeedyk said it would impact negatively on babies'
development if they spent a long time in a buggy which
undermined their ability to communicate with their parent at a
time when their brain was developing rapidly.
Laura Barbour of the Sutton Trust, a social mobility charity
which funded the research, said buggy manufacturers should look
closely at the findings.


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