Aibu to think that I don't need to teach my baby to walk?

[Babysafari]

12 month old is crawling, walking around the furniture, balancing with just one hand and he's just about starting to stand up letting go but goes all wobbly when he's realises he's let go. He's got push along toys that he plays with.

Certain irritating family members haven't stopped harping on about him walking since he was 6 months old and are now adamant that I should be teaching him to walk. They also keep trying to get him to walk along up and down holding hands which he gets annoyed by because he just wants to play.

They seem to think he'd walk if I just taught him to, I think he'll do it when he's ready and that he's coming along fine.

Both mine were late walkers. DS was almost 2 years old, HV got very concerned by GP was really supportive. He was a formula one crawler and when he did walk he was steady from the first steps.

My DC were treated exactly then same, didn't 'teach' either of them to walk. One walked at 10months the other at 16months. Mostly just leave them to it and ignore any busy bodies, especially if like me, you have one who keeps telling you it's your fault as you haven't got them in proper shoes! No telling them that barefoot is how we are designed to learn made any difference. My poor neglected shoeless child is doing just fine.

YANBU

You can't make them walk. Neither can you stop them when they're ready. Mine both walked at 10 months and were running 2 weeks later. Nothing I did to make them they just naturally could do it.

It was a pain though when meeting up with mums whose babies were just sitting there or crawling a few paces whilst I spend the whole time chasing after a laughing DS who was running across the park... (we got lots of lovely comments though because he was so dinky yet running and climbing)

My nieces are in their 40's and were toilet-trained at an early age as was the practice then. The process seemed to go on for months with loads of accidents on the way.
My DCs are in late 20's and it was so much easier when they came out of nappies at 2-3 years - and speedier.

YADNBU. All 3 of mine were lateish walkers, dd1 at 15 months, dd2 around the same and dd3 has only just started in the last few weeks at 19 months but then she didn't sit up by herself till just after her birthday. I've found dd3 is just like me as a baby, she won't do something until she's sure she can actually do it perfectly.

Babies do things on their own timetables and like a PP said, excluding any disabilities, you don't meet any adults who can't walk, talk or use the toilet.

He IS learning! All the play, messing around with toys,cruising, that is learning. That's what builds the strength and skill to walk. No point at all in forcing them, they do it when they are good and ready.

How annoying for you...