Sending kids to classes to learn how to ride a bike

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s so quick and easy for most kids. I’ll never understand outsourcing so much parenting. Teaching our kids to ride a two-wheeler was so much fun!

Because it isnt fun for some parents?

[Anonymous]

The National Park Service runs a great class (a one-time thing) that both my kids did with a parent.

A lot of the times they listen better to someone who isn't a parent. Both learned quickly following this class.

Is this also a sign of societal decline or is it okay?

[Anonymous]

Yes, it's very depressing to me to see this. Unless the child has some special needs that require an outside person for physiological or emotional reasons, which I suppose you never know. But I do know families that outsource 90% of their parenting and think that attending back-to-school night makes them involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so quick and easy for most kids. I’ll never understand outsourcing so much parenting. Teaching our kids to ride a two-wheeler was so much fun!

Because it isnt fun for some parents?

Did you sign onto parenting because you thought it would be fun?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so quick and easy for most kids. I’ll never understand outsourcing so much parenting. Teaching our kids to ride a two-wheeler was so much fun!

It's not quick and easy for ALL kids FYI. A class can be helpful because they have experience and ideas to make it work. By the way-I don't 'outsource' my parenting, but my 7yo is not yet riding a bike and I would sign them up if I was local, and my dc would be happy about it.

And yet, for eons (and still, in many localities) they managed to figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's very depressing to me to see this. Unless the child has some special needs that require an outside person for physiological or emotional reasons, which I suppose you never know. But I do know families that outsource 90% of their parenting and think that attending back-to-school night makes them involved.

“Depressing”????!!!!!????

You need to worry about yourself more.

[Anonymous]

The class also teaches bike safety and basic maintenance. I don’t think it’s sad at all. Lots of homeschooling parents think you’re sad, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this an indicator of our effed up workplace and society? Parents being so busy at work (to afford a home, college tuition) that they don’t have time to teach their kids to ride a bike? I mean, it used to be the quintessential parent-child activity!

Any parent who can't teach their child to ride a bike in one afternoon should not be called a parent! I have three left feet and my brother taught me to ride a bike in an hour! What's next. A class to teach your child how to stand and take a shower!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this an indicator of our effed up workplace and society? Parents being so busy at work (to afford a home, college tuition) that they don’t have time to teach their kids to ride a bike? I mean, it used to be the quintessential parent-child activity!

Any parent who can't teach their child to ride a bike in one afternoon should not be called a parent! I have three left feet and my brother taught me to ride a bike in an hour! What's next. A class to teach your child how to stand and take a shower!

DP. Honestly, that one would be way more useful to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this an indicator of our effed up workplace and society? Parents being so busy at work (to afford a home, college tuition) that they don’t have time to teach their kids to ride a bike? I mean, it used to be the quintessential parent-child activity!

Any parent who can't teach their child to ride a bike in one afternoon should not be called a parent! I have three left feet and my brother taught me to ride a bike in an hour! What's next. A class to teach your child how to stand and take a shower!

Too bad, I have 2 kids and neither of them could learn bike riding from mom and dad. But they did learn in a week from a Parktakes camp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this an indicator of our effed up workplace and society? Parents being so busy at work (to afford a home, college tuition) that they don’t have time to teach their kids to ride a bike? I mean, it used to be the quintessential parent-child activity!

Any parent who can't teach their child to ride a bike in one afternoon should not be called a parent! I have three left feet and my brother taught me to ride a bike in an hour! What's next. A class to teach your child how to stand and take a shower!

DP. Honestly, that one would be way more useful to me.

Even with my three left feet, I could take showers by myself at age 6 (couldn't ride bike until 2nd grade). I just got in and turned the water on, soaped up, rinsed off, turned water off, got out of shower, dried off. It was as easy as breathing!

[Anonymous]

Agree. Dumb. But lots of parents here will explain away why it was justified for their very unique situation (eye roll)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so quick and easy for most kids. I’ll never understand outsourcing so much parenting. Teaching our kids to ride a two-wheeler was so much fun!

It's not quick and easy for ALL kids FYI. A class can be helpful because they have experience and ideas to make it work. By the way-I don't 'outsource' my parenting, but my 7yo is not yet riding a bike and I would sign them up if I was local, and my dc would be happy about it.

And yet, for eons (and still, in many localities) they managed to figure it out.

Not really. My grandma never learned. Her parents tried and gave up and never tried again. A lot of people don’t know how to ride bikes.

[Anonymous]

What I don’t get are parents who send their kids to swim classes! Just throw them in the pool and the kids will figure it out.

[Anonymous]

It is easier said to be done. I can't swim and I can't bike. DH can swim and bike, and he has been teaching our boy to swim & bike on and off for 2 years plus, and it is going nowhere. Is there learning to bike session in germantown area?