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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Balance Biking Mom.  Yes, it's impressive that your just turned 3 yo is riding a big kids bike with no training wheels.  Please stop trying to give my 4yo (with training wheels) your old balance bike "so he can catch up."  He's fine.  [/quote]  
My balance biking kid didn't have the coordination to stop the bike properly and while he can ride it fine at 5, he doesn't want to because he had a couple unfortunate encounters with trees and is not comfortable with braking.  [b]I doubt the 3 year old has the faculties to properly control the bike anyway[/b].

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AKA "If my five-year-old is unwilling/unable to do something, it is unfathomable to me that there exists a younger child who is willing/able to do the same thing."  Not smug at all.

-Friend of a parent of a 4 year old who "has the faculties to properly control" a balance bike and has for about 6 months now.[/quote]

Was it my use of the word faculties that bothered you?  Sorry about that.  I agree about the 4 year old being able to use the bike but would be really surprised about a 3 year old just because riding a bike requires so much coordination.  Since you called me smug, well smug you too. :D Actually when it comes to my son I think he's really uncoordinated and clumsy so it's probably better that he doesn't ride the bike.  I think there probably exist millions of children much younger than him that are probably much more advanced, mature and better at a lot of things. Am I still being smug?  I give up.  [/quote]

No, it was (like I said) the presumption that a younger child could not possibly ("I doubt...properly...anyway") do something that your older child could not do at the same age (or older).  All of the smugness on this thread is rooted in the assumption that something that does not work for your family could not possibly work for another family or that your way is the best way.  I know that my own child has strengths and weaknesses (and he's not the one riding the bike) and that our family choices work for us regardless of what anyone else thinks about it or does for their own family.[/quote]

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