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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the balance bike fad is really dumb and something that’s become popular because it’s seen as European. 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]

Uh, what? I think you’re confused. I’ve never seen any kid zoom anywhere on training wheels. Even toddlers can get the hang of balance bikes and go zooming around. Even if they can’t glide yet, they can still run on them. I have no idea where you got the idea that balance bikes are slow.[/quote]

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