Learning to ride a bike!
Amy has learned to ride a bike on two wheels! When Kyle learned we went out front to ride bikes one day and he said “mommy take off the training wheels!” I went and fiddled around in the garage to find some tools that would work, took the training wheels off. We have a nice flat grassy side yard so I got him started there and we quickly were riding up and down the sidewalk. He was so ready to be on two wheels. The biggest thing they have to learn is to put their feet down when they stop. Pat came home from work and Kyle was zipping around on two wheels and daddy felt a little left out!
Unforunately we had a repeat. Amy declared training wheels gone! I took her to the side yard, daddy came home from work… I told him I’d let him teach Evan how to ride a bike! But when they are ready, they are ready, it doesn’t take much to get them riding. Daddy did get to help with learning a few of the other skills.
There are definately 3 steps to learning to ride a bike:
1. Balance and stop. They have to learn to put their feet down when they stop.
2. Turn, the training wheels make the turning radius much different, they have to learn to judge space and turn within it.
3. Start, I think this is the hardest, the have to learn to push off, pedal, and balance at the same time. Of coure the little kids bikes you can’t rotate the pedals backwards (because that’s breaking) and that makes it more of a challenge in some ways.
Amy has plenty of bumps and bruises from learning to ride, but she is so proud of herself! Here is my little Amy Belle zipping around the street!
