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what age did your DC learn how to ride a bike?
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zumbamama
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I see kids way younger than mine w/o training wheels. I'm feeling kind of guilty I haven't been working on this more.
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| We spent hours on the day of DD's 4th birthday last summer in Toys R Us trying to get her interested in riding a "big girl" bike with training wheels, but she got way distracted by the Barbie jeeps in the next aisle over! So we gave up for now. She's enjoying whizzing around in her tricycle, so that's fine at this point. We'll try a "real" bike again in the spring. |
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| I feel very guilty too. My son will be 7 in a few months. I need to get a move on. |
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| FWIW, my son insisted on keeping training wheels on forever, and even struggled to ride it with them on. Then just out of the blue last weekend after watching some of the neighborhood kids whiz by, he asked his dad to take them off and within about 5 minutes, with no assistance, he was riding around like an old pro. He is 6 and a half. |
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My daughter just turned 6 and I still haven't tried taking the training wheels off b/c I'm lazy. I KNOW I need to do this soon. I had a college boyfriend who couldn't ride a bike, just never learned, and I remember putting him on one in the aisles of Target and trying to push him, a la Kramer v. Kramer. It was a major turn-off. We broke up soon after that.
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Some kids do it sooner, some kids do it later. There's no reason to feel bad about it. My son was 5, I think, when the training wheels came off for good. BUT, we both ride a lot and had ample opportunity to work on it with him. It's something that requires some consistent practice.
The best piece of advice I ever got about how to teach a kid to ride with no training wheels was to teach them to practice falling off first. |
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Our son just turned six and still has training wheels. He shows little interest in riding, so he may just not be ready yet. On the one hand, I feel like he is the last to learn, yet on the other hand, I wonder if kids just are learning earlier here than elsewhere? I was EIGHT when I learned how to ride a bike and it never hurt me any. 
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| My older son was 7 when the training wheels came off and my younger one was 6. Both boys just love their bikes and riding bikes on the bike trails in the metropolitan area is a favorite family outing. So we were very excited when the training wheels were gone. |
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| Mine were both 4. My husband taught them each in a day. |
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4-5 with training wheels
6 - no training wheels |
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| no training wheels the summer before kindergarten. First practice on grass! |
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Not the OP, but this thread makes me feel so much better! DD is 4 and can barely ride with training wheels - once the wheels stop turning on her own she has trouble with the pedals. I feel like it's something I should have taught her, but she fights me on it when I try.
At least now I know I'm not alone! |