Originally Posted by
Succhia Ruota
Awesome advice, thank you for responding!
Yes, she's five and only barely getting started with training wheels. I tried to start her last summer, but she took a spill from turning too sharply and scraped her knuckles. I couldn't even bribe her with anything to get back on it after that.
She's having a very hard time with all of it; pedaling, watching where she's going, steering, and of course, braking. But I'm going to try some of what you posted.
We have a relatively flat cul-de-sac at the end of our street where we will practice. It's just getting her over her anxiety that will prove to be the difficult part.
As you'll have gathered from other forumers, the general advice is - Bin the training wheels (most misleading description ever(?)), take the pedals off, make sure she can reach the floor with her feet
very easily and get her to gradually take longer "strides"
Good luck - which means she'll learn to ride confidently and then your worries will
really begin
