[blparent] Teaching a Sighted Child to Ride a Bike

[Wendy Meuse]

Hi Jo Elizabeth.  What a shame.  I was going to suggest holding on to the back of her bike  and run along.  I did this with my 
daughter and thenwwhen we got going at a pretty good speed, I sneakily let go of her bike and she just kept going.  Once she 
realized I had let go though she pulled over onto the grass.   My nabor who lives down the steet from me though had a teen aged son 
and he worked with her on it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto via BlParent" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 10:56 PM
Subject: [blparent] Teaching a Sighted Child to Ride a Bike


Hi everybody. Have any of you taught your children to ride their bikes? My daughter is nine and sighted, and I haven't had much luck 
at this. She has a bike, but her training wheels are still on. She's embarrassed to ride now, since most of her friends have been 
without training wheels for a few summers, at least. I've walked behind her, or rather jogged now, for a few years. She can ride 
independently with the training wheels, but I can't seem to get her over the hump to where she can balance without them. The thing 
is, I can't run fast enough with her to hold her up so she can stay in balance and have me let go so she'll maintain speed and keep 
the bike sailing along on her own. The hard truth is that I'm not liable to get any help from her sighted dad on this one. He claims 
his knees are bad. I'm not sure I believe that, but whether I believe it or not isn't really relevant. She has a three-wheeled 
scooter, but it's on its last wobbles, and she needs to learn to ride her bike. Any
  ideas?


Jo Elizabeth Pinto

"The Bright Side of Darkness"
Is my award-winning novel,
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