This past summer I took Michaela out to the road in front of Grandma and Grandpa’s house in Consecon to teach her how to ride her bike with no training wheels. It was an interesting experience to say the least as I am much older than I was when my older two learned to ride their bikes. I had to create a new method of teaching so I would not fall over dead from a heart attack running beside her bike. I started by putting the seat way down and using a 12 inch wheel so her feet touched the ground. I had her sit on the seat and had her lift up her feet teaching her to balance just sitting still. Next I had her learn to push using her right foot, her strength leg. This got her use to the position of “take off” when she was riding on her own. This was a fun/frustrating task to say the least. Within an hour she was comfortable and was pushing forward on her own and feeling good about not falling off her bike. With a 12 inch wheel she knew her fet were close to the ground and that she could “catch” herself when she would fall over.
Four hours later she was riding up and down the road all on her own and I did not have to run.
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