(05-23-2022, 07:19 PM)mikesez Wrote: I'm nearly done teaching my son to ride his bike without training wheels.  He yelled a few times, but I didn't.  I remembered from teaching his sister what it felt like to be standing next to the bike while they try to figure out how to rid, so I knew what to expect, nothing surprised me, I didn't get upset.
But his poor sister.  She still remembers how I had a panic attack when she accidently rolled into street and a car was sort of nearby but not a real threat. This was when she was learning to ride with training wheels. We had her set up on the driveway pointed to the street, and she just boldly pushed away and rolled as far as she could go. She thought she did great! Why was daddy yelling at her for it?
The boy, we never ever let him even approach his bike while it was pointed towards the street.  He's going to have so many fewer negative memories of his parents than our daughter will.

for our first, when he got a bike (with trainers) the first two lessons were:

1) how to stop (learn this before how to go)
2) if you start to fall, use your leg as a kickstand (this one works better with trainers than not, as falls are usually slow-mo, overturned the wheel kind of falls)

Once he had those in muscle memory, we were good to ride.

Ours had completely different experiences, too. He's older, and learned to ride in an apartment parking lot, so there was very little independent riding or getting too far from us, and the constancy of traffic didn't allow for a lot of wide open riding, lots of stopping, waiting for cars to pull in or out of spots, etc. Our youngest started riding after we moved, and got to do most of her learning in a cul de sac that has very little interruption.

While I am the worryer of the family, we've been fortunate that no accident has been severe so far.

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