Well you hear that term a lot with music, but I’ve been using it a lot for the kids as well. Our baby girl will sit there while eating and just nod her head up and down with hair flying… and then laugh when she’s done. Then other times she’ll shake her head back and forth and then laugh when done.
Then there are the times I really don’t want her to “bang” her head, and these are the times that she more like “hits” her head on the wall. Then when she does this, she laughs…of course. Hmmmm….where have I heard that before? Her brother Luke has taught her some bad habits, and he’s only been working on it for 20 months….I can’t imagine what she’ll learn from Luke by the time she’s a teenager!
Luke and our baby girl were trying to teach one of their new friends this “head banging” thing the other day. The only good part is that they were doing this against the couch, so I know it didn’t hurt. Maybe they are done hitting their heads on the wall? One can hope anyway.
My sister did the head banging for years. As a toddler, she would get up on her hands and knees and get up close to a wall or the wall of the crib and bang her head for hours on end to the point wherein she would have bruising on her forehead.
ReplyDeleteWith the crib, however, it too would rock/roll back and forth every time she did. It was kind of funny in a way when we were living in New York City in a 3rd floor apartment. Apparently, the guy living below us thought it was an entirely "different" activity going on and would pound on his ceiling, yelling "You animals! Don't you ever stop?!" LOL.
When my sister got older and was at the walking around stage, she would climb up on the couch and sit and bounce back and forth for hours like the kids in the video are doing. Looking back on this, I wonder if she wasn't trying to calm herself (the household was very, very chaotic with parents fighting all the time). She eventually grew out of it by the time she was 9 or 10 or so. None of the other siblings (7) in the family ever did any head banging, however.
The kids in the above video look like they're just having fun and not doing any serious, long-term head banging.