Learning to ride a bike
I’d been feeling sort of uncomfortable, all winter long, over the fact that our son hadn’t even attempted to learn how to ride a two-wheeler. Not guilty, exactly, but definitely feeling that it was a bit of a parenting fail.
Here he was, approaching his seventh birthday, and he was not even close to riding without training wheels. In fact, he barely even rode the too-small bike with training wheels that he’d had for years. Biking, for whatever reason, just wasn’t something we did.
Maybe it was because we live on a very steep hill? Or because although we finally paved our driveway, last summer, it was still a fairly steep hill? Maybe it was because we live on a busy street close to a REALLY busy street? Or maybe it was just because none of us cared enough to do anything about those obstacles?
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I felt a little better when I learned that he wasn’t alone. Hardly any of his friends — all six years old — knew how to ride a two-wheeler. My friends and I compared our own stories of tearing around on our two-wheelers as little five-year-olds, and we decided there must be a reason that our own kids were “behind” on this particular milestone.
Was it that we’re all more protective now, in 2017, than our parents had been in the ’80s and ’90s? And none of us felt we lived on streets that were safe enough to let them loose? Did our kids spend less time on their bikes because we drive them everywhere — and no one’s allowed to go to a friend’s house alone? Or was it that today’s children are busier with sports and activities and have less time to mess around at home? …
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