Yes it might sound strange so I'll explain...

My son is 8.5 months old and his favourite thing in the whole world is to walk around and around and around whilst holding onto my fingers. Now of course I cannot do this all day. It kills my back, I have a 3 year old that needs attention, plus there is so much more to life that walking in circles.

He hates sitting in one spot for any reasonable amount of time. He can commando crawl but isn't really into that either, unless he sees something he really MUST have. So basically, if I sit him down the screaming and arching of back starts. If I sit near him he instantly latches onto me, pulls himself up and looks for my fingers. It is driving us all crazy.

I try to engage him in activities so that his mind is off sitting. The only thing that works is when we sit down in his sister's room and have a 'jam session' with the musical instruments. That can go for 20 minutes which is pretty good for him.

Soooo, I'm wondering if anyone else has ever had this problem and how did you tackle it?