What next, Nikhil?

It appears some children don’t need to be on their knees before they try to get on their feet. Eight-month old Nikhil is here on his feet and hands.

Where does he go from here, I wonder. I don’t see him sitting unless he learns to buckle his knees; nor can he move forward, on all fours, with his head down. This is, what I would call, a nowhere posture. I am no expert in these matters, but a natural progression ought to be for him to sit and then crawl before he stands on his feet.

Before he gets down to the three-step posture.In the last two shots he is down on his stomach, and understandably frustrated; for he can’t get himself to stand up, let alone move ahead on his feet and hands. Oliver Goldsmith wrote She Stoops to Conquer; my mantra for Nikhil – ‘he needs to crawl to get ahead’. Literally; and, in a figurative sense, when he comes of age,especially,if he wants to be in politics.