[blparent] Teaching a Sighted Child to Ride a Bike

[Jody ianuzzi]

The first thing that came to mind when I read your post was that perhaps her friends would like to help her learn how to ride her bike. When I learned to ride a bike we had a grassy hill that I just kept going down over and over again until I got it. If I fell it was onto the soft grass so I didn't get hurt. When I taught my kids to ride their bikes I did run alongside holding the seat and then when I let go they didn't know it and they were riding on their own without help.



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> On May 30, 2017, at 1:56 AM, Jo Elizabeth Pinto via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 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?
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