Physically advanced means slower social skills?

Question

So my 7 month ols crawls, stands, and is starting to figure out how to cruise along the couch. No doubt in my mind that he will be walking on his own in the next month or so. Someone told me today that babies that are more physically developed have a hard time with speech and are slower intellectually..what do you guys think? Hos half brother is speech delayed and is 4 (also was ahead physically) and can't understand him to well. I'm hoping my baby doesn't have the dame problem because of it.

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I don't think there's much truth to that, my daughter has always done everything early crawling at 6 months walking at 8 months she was speaking clear full sentences at 1 and now at 5 she is so smart, well above in most areas at school and is reading already. She was also formula fed and people always liked to tell me she wouldn't be as smart as if she would of been breastfed.

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My husband was advanced with physical and was waking at 8 months 5 days and never had problems with social. I didn't walk till closer to 1 year and no issues with social. I seriously doubt physical has anything to do with social. A lot of things are pre-wired into genetics and then the rest are learned behaviors from their environment.

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Don't know if there's any real science. Rhonda this theory but someone just shared the same info with me today. They said there's a correlation between crawling and reading skills. She was saying if they skip crawling and just start walking...their brain skips over some crucial part that will allow them to read better. That said, my twin brothers both skipped crawling. They were walking by 8 months and both had very severe learning disabilities. But there could have been a lot of reasons for that.

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I don't believe that. My oldest was physically advanced and is top of her class in school. Granted she's only in kindergarten but hey she's doing 1st grade work

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I don't think that being more advanced physically means slower social development. My son is months advanced in his physical development and is also the most social baby.  When he is working on mastering one thing, I notice a hault in another skill area. But once he has a new skill down things in the other areas catch up.

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I some what agree.. my eldest (2)  was really early with all physical  mile stones  and was a little " behind" with the social  ones.  The drs  were never really bothered  by it though  its just that they put all their focus  on moving.

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I disagree with this. My LO will have weeks where he focuses more on one but so I don't think that in every single instance one area is delayed.

Physically advanced means slower social skills?

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