Teaching Kids To Ride A Bike.

[Blackbriar 8,569]

 

Surely, your mum or dad teaching you to ride a bike is one of the last remaining rites of passage ? A bonding experience, even ? A basic skill, passed down the generations.

 

60% of parents now claim to be too busy to teach their kids to ride a bike (!), so many are now engaging professionals - at 20 quid an hour - to get their kids on 2 wheels.

 

Obviously, Cycling Proficiency is important, to learn road safety and negotiating traffic, and that comes later, but paying to learn to balance a bike without stabilisers ? Really ?

 

http://www.thebikestation.org.uk/glasgow/learn/cycle-training/

[Kay 3,709]

My dad taught my eldest lad as they have a long drive so it was safe for the lad to learn there, my other lad who is 7 years younger just got fed up of the stabilisers holding him back on his bike took them off so he could keep up with his brother & his mates , the older lad was spitting feathers having his 7 year old brother tagging along

[j j m 6,555]

ive taught all my kids and grankids how to ride a bike

[tb25 4,627]

Nice grass hill..And just push..Hold on kid lol..

[Greyman 28,852]

My youngest boy is 24 now but as a young one I remember taking his stabilisers off and taking him for his first proper bike ride, I live on a dual carriage way and the pavement is a cycle path on one side and a pedestrian path on the other, so off we go wobbling off along the cycle path only to be blocked off by one of the neighbours who seems to think it's a carpark for him, he then came out and started shouting at us for riding on the pavement, when I told him were to go he went into his garage and came running out waving a pick handle at me and my kids, so I planted him firmly on his ass which then had all the neighbours out for a look, and a bit of amateur refereeing, needless to say my boy will never forget his first bike ride , I still get reminded of it from time to time , 17 years on the neighbour still has not spoke a single word to me, you can't get those memory,s for £20 an hour and my son is still my best mate it's all part of life's bonding process, good or bad we done it together

[The one 8,503]

Part of being a parent how can you pay somebody to teach your kids to ride a bike lol

[tb25 4,627]

Skittle gutted me as I have never swam well not great..But my boy does..We go a few times a months.he loves seeing me shire myself neat the deap end lol..

[jukel123 8,504]

My elder son took to his bike at 4 with the minimum of help. My other son is only 13 months younger (who said a woman can't get pregnant when she's breast feeding) was jealous as f**k cos he couldn't master two wheels the same as his brother could. So I spent hours and hours teaching him until finally I let go of his seat and said 'you are on your own son, you're balancing all by yourself'. Cue misty -eyed father, violin music and a chuffed son ? No, he looked back, called me a 'f****n b*****d' and said he was going to 'kill me.' He then fell off and ran to attack me. I fell about laughing and he stormed off. it was another two or three months before he got back on a bike. Foul mouthed, little, ungrateful shit. Must get it from his mother.

Edited February 21, 2017 by jukel123