Encouraging 1 year old to walk?

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My LO is 12 1/2 months and has been pulling to stand/cruising along furniture/standing on his own for about 3 months now. He took his first steps a couple of weeks before Christmas, and consistently can do 8-10 steps in one go independently before falling down/switching to crawling.

I know it's still early so not worried for his development, just wondering if anyone has any tips to encourage him to practice his walking a bit more to get more confident/be able to walk further.

He uses a push along Walker a lot and loves it, and will happily walk up and down the room just holding onto 1 finger! It's just on his own - he'll do his few steps but then realise crawling is quicker and swap!

He’ll get there, he just needs to gain confidence. Took a little over a month from my DD’s first steps to her confidently walking on her own!

He’ll do it in his own time.

Honestly I don’t think there’s much you can do to actually encourage, at this point it’s probably personality! My very sensitive/cautious 15 month old (very upset at every fall) took over 3 months to get from first steps to walking Unconfidently. There’s most likely nothing physically holding him back. He will get there eventually, only thing we done to encourage was get her to walk between mum and dad and make a big deal about it to make it exciting so she wasn’t scared. He will get there when he’s ready and you will quickly realise how much hard work it is

Omg I'm so sorry I meant to post that as a seperate post and I've added it to your thread 🤦🏻‍♀️