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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]See if dc will learn to ride a razor scooter.  That uses many of the same balance skills. Then once totally at ease on the scooter try a bike with the pedals removed.  Then when dc asks for the pedals put them on.

Or as other posters say, just let the issue go.  Bike riding...eh.[/quote]

Agree about razr scooter--huge help for us with then-7 yo. I was pretty sure he wasn't going to learn until he was much older since he's not terribly coordinated, nor was he terribly motivated. (But we also didn't make a big deal about it--like some PPs, our "must" was swimming, not biking.)

After he got comfortable on the scooter, we took the training wheels off and let him mess around on the bike mostly on his own. Now and then one of us would help him balance himself and pedal. Then one day he was doing it on his own. It was pretty amazing.

But if you can't not make a big deal about it, a class is probably the way to go to eliminate some of the pressure dynamic.[/quote]

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