craig austin
I'd take it a step further and just get a small bike (as in strider size,
small enough they can put both feet on the ground while in the saddle).
Cheaper than most striders, and you can take the pedals off and have the
same effect, except that many real small bikes even have handbrakes, so
they can learn not only to balance but to stop without dragging their feet.
Putting the pedals on their bike makes it seem like less of a change when
it's time -- and that time comes really fast once they learn the bike won't
fall over on them.
I taught my oldest child to ride the old fashioned way, with training
wheels, running along holding the bike, etc. Scary for both of us. Someone
gave me the above advice and my second-born was riding with pedals after
one day without them, at age almost three. It was one of those minor
miracles of parenthood.
Craig
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:58 PM, David Rasca
wrote:
> As soon as their feet could touch the ground on the balance bike, they
> were on the balance bike. I thought it was pretty cool from a pedagogy
> standpoint because they were able to skip past the whole training wheel and
> tricycle phase.
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