[blparent] Teaching a Sighted Child to Ride a Bike

[Star Gazer]

					I'm going to play devil's advocate
on the side of her dad on this one. Why does she need to learn? 
My husband never learned how to ride a bike, he could never balance. 
Assumming she wants to learn, I'd have one of the neighborhood kids teach
her, ideally a boy as they seem to take a lot of pride in teaching this to a
girl. 
Maybe her step brother could help? 
I'm trying to convey to you that she doesn't have to learn, and that if she
does, it isn't on you to teach this, nor is it on her dad. 


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Elizabeth Pinto via BlParent
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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

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