My stepdaughter will be 3 in November and constantly want to be held. If you put her down to walk, she cries and throws a fit and tries climbing up your legs. My husband constantly picks her up. I tell him "she's gonna have to learn to walk. Don't pick her up. Let her cry." And he gets mad when I say that. But she's too big to NEVER have her feet touch the ground. She is 30 pounds. She needs to walk. My husband said "she'll walk when she wants to walk." No, she won't. If she gets carried constantly, she will never walk.  We only get her once during the week for a few hours and every other weekend. Her mom constantly carries her and all the good habits we try to enforce go away when she goes back to her mom. We don't give her a paci and her mom does. We help her use the potty and her mom doesn't. It's frustrating. How can we get her to walk? Especially when my husband won't listen to me. I'm like "she is okay to walk. She is okay to cry. She has to learn she can't be carried."