First, ask for helmet and bike, then to the surprise of your parents wait patiently as they put the helmet on.
Phase one: walk with your “laufrad” between your legs.
Phase two: put a little bit of your weight on the seat.
Phase two point two: Let daddy pull you around.
Phase three: sit further back on the seat
Phase four: kick back and roll with it.
Phase five: stop, look back with a big grin on your face and say, “ich schneller” then continue on.
Each day we have taken advantage of the large parking lot of our vacation apartment to learn riding our bike (laufrad).
I didn’t think it would happen this year. At home she showed little interest in really riding it.
But this week, every night when we came home she wanted to try. And last night it clicked. She really put her weight on the seat, kicked and let the momentum of the bike carry her.
Then it was hells bells, she was all over the parking lot. Especially trying to run over mommy and daddy’s feet.
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Did she totally skip the training wheels?
ReplyDeleteWait! How can she possibly be riding a two-wheeler at her age??
ReplyDeleteAww. Reminds me of my little girl. My husband and I planned to teach her how to ride the bike while we stayed in one of the houses for rent in Palm Harbor, FL last year. I just love the daddy-daughter bonding they had! It was perfect. Her bike has training wheels, though.
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