Lack of context there, admittedly, so I’ll try to explain myself.
The boy, (Oliver), can RIDE (his bike without stabilisers)!
During the summer holidays, I’ve been determined to get Oli onto his bike and ride like Jack and the other bigger boys do, namely, without his stabilisers. He’s been fairly reluctant to begin with, but when I told him that his friend Charlie (from down our road) can ride his bike “like a big boy”, I could see that I had caught his attention.
I’ve been holding the rear of the seat and holding him up-right, but I think he’s been over-relying on my being there, to the point of not bothering to try and balance in the middle of the bike, but then as the feeling of loss of control happened, he’d let go of the handlebars and reach out for me, making the whole bike unsteady. Not really the best thing to do, but it worked for him, as I’d soon grab him and come to an abrupt stop.
But Sunday this week, we tried again, same as we have been, and this time, he just seemed to get it and understood the idea of peddling hard and staying upright, and was going quick enough to make me break out into a swift jog alongside him.
Giggling all the way, he obviously enjoyed it, we did lots more ‘lengths’ of our part of the road and he loved it. We only stopped as he’d seen that Jack was playing on a ride-on truck, and then jealousy set in. But then, and after I had put the bike back in the garage, did he go back in and ask to go again. Also, in a completely un-related topic, it was also bloomin’ hot that weekend, and so it was me that was dripping with sweat, from running alongside him.
The next trick, is for him to learn to:
look forward pay attention to what he’s about to crash into…
Madness. but very funny.
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