How to teach a kid to ride a bike, without running behind.
The part that is non-intuitive about bike-riding, and the reason kids crash when trying to learn, is that you turn the handlebars the direction you are leaning, if you start to fall. Once that is automaticized, kids just get on the bike and go. Seriously. So, what you do is stand behind the bike and tip it randomly left or right. When the kid is always, automatically turning immediately in the direction of the tip, like 50 times in a row, tell them they're ready, and give them gloves in case they sprawl.
I swear, even with my uncoordinated child, this was a two-hour learning curve, total.
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Date: 2004-10-25 03:38 pm (UTC)The part that is non-intuitive about bike-riding, and the reason kids crash when trying to learn, is that you turn the handlebars the direction you are leaning, if you start to fall. Once that is automaticized, kids just get on the bike and go. Seriously. So, what you do is stand behind the bike and tip it randomly left or right. When the kid is always, automatically turning immediately in the direction of the tip, like 50 times in a row, tell them they're ready, and give them gloves in case they sprawl.
I swear, even with my uncoordinated child, this was a two-hour learning curve, total.