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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I think the balance bike fad is really dumb and something that’s become popular because it’s seen as European. [/b]American kids used to grow up with training wheels. I think training wheels are great because you immediately get to experience the beauty of a bicycle: speed and actually transporting yourself somewhere faster than you can walk. Balance bikes are awkward and slow compared to a bike with training wheels and just aren’t a lot of fun, as your smart daughter has quickly figured out. If it were so difficult to go from training wheels to a bike generations of kids would never have learned, and yet we all did, with much more enthusiasm than had we all been subjected to balance bikes. Tl;dr: get her a real bike with training wheels even if you lose cred with the other upper middle class parents.[/quote] IA w/you. The fact that some people think it's one or the other is so silly.[/quote]
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