easysurfer
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I rode my bicycle to the dentist today. I like to use my bicycle for short errands -- green living, keep fit and the weather was warm.
Well, as I was riding back home, stopped at a stoplight, I saw, I assume a father trying to teach his kids (son about 5 years old, daughter about 4) to ride. The kids each had a small bike with training wheels. The boy was ahead, riding lead, the daughter was following, and father in back walking along. The daughter gets afraid, gets a pedal blocked by a lamp post and says "I can't do it, I can't" (as she is afraid of fallin'). The father tries to be paitent at first, encourages her on, then gets flustered and I hear him screaming, "Ride, you have to ride..you have to do it..." Things settle down a bit as the daughter bike pedal gets 'uncaught".
This episode brought back memories when I was a child and had my brothers trying to teach me to ride a bicycle. I remember them trying to be a big brother. But training wheels, I think aren't the best learnig method. I learned from two methods, one, a brother pretended to be a training wheels who would spot me from behind. But mostly, after failed attempts at the training wheel method, said the heck with it..and learned on my own, without training wheels. Of course, fell down a few times but eventually learned.
Well, as I was riding back home, stopped at a stoplight, I saw, I assume a father trying to teach his kids (son about 5 years old, daughter about 4) to ride. The kids each had a small bike with training wheels. The boy was ahead, riding lead, the daughter was following, and father in back walking along. The daughter gets afraid, gets a pedal blocked by a lamp post and says "I can't do it, I can't" (as she is afraid of fallin'). The father tries to be paitent at first, encourages her on, then gets flustered and I hear him screaming, "Ride, you have to ride..you have to do it..." Things settle down a bit as the daughter bike pedal gets 'uncaught".
This episode brought back memories when I was a child and had my brothers trying to teach me to ride a bicycle. I remember them trying to be a big brother. But training wheels, I think aren't the best learnig method. I learned from two methods, one, a brother pretended to be a training wheels who would spot me from behind. But mostly, after failed attempts at the training wheel method, said the heck with it..and learned on my own, without training wheels. Of course, fell down a few times but eventually learned.