According to my lovely Developmental Psychology textbook,  African babies learn to sit and walkd much earlier than other babies.  In fact, they also develop their motor skills much faster too!

This faster development isn’t due to fish oil in their milk or prenatal vitamins but to baby wearing.  Yep, through observation of international research on infancy by C.M. Super in 1981 (Handbook of cross-cultural psychology, Vol 4: Developmental Psychology), we see that African babies who are carried as tradition would have it, upon their mothers’ backs will develop quicker than others.  We can attribute this developmental success to baby wearing (on the back specifically) and how it teaches the baby good posture and helps to shape and strengthen their muscles!

Wow! Go baby wearing!