I feel kind of bad for your MIL here. I'm sure she did not think a tricycle would be controversial.
My kids have always had multiple wheeled toys to choose from, including tricycles. They both still managed to learn to ride a bike.
There are so many hard decisions in parenthood. Don't take the easy ones and make them hard.
This x 1000! Your MIL is the only one using her brains around here; a NOT QUITE 2 year old needs a damn tricycle. Not a strider bike that is too high for them.
(fwiw, we were big strider bike fans.... at the appropriate age which was for us 3 1/2. My kids were riding bikes without training wheels by 4 1/2.)
Sorrynotsorry for being salty.... I've had a rough week. Thank your MIL for the kind/thoughtful/FREE gift!
my son is almost 3 now and has really been getting the hang of the strider bike recently. He's been riding a trike for a year probably. He's really only "gotten" the strider bike in the past couple of months. We have been hiding his trike away this past couple of weeks though, maybe some would judge that but he can ride either now and would generally choose the trike because it's easier.
We never gave my daughter enough practice on the strider bike and she never got it, she uses training wheels which is fine and I think she'll be ready this summer to try without them (she'll be five next month). at this point I do think there is a chance my son will skip training wheels which is exciting
So I see both sides but at not yet two I'd definitely allow the trike for now
I look forward to us mountain biking as a family so I'm definitely interested in them riding without training wheels as soon as is reasonable.
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btw all this bicycling is occurring in our basement because we are lazy and it's freezing and everywhere is covered in snow
I feel kind of bad for your MIL here. I'm sure she did not think a tricycle would be controversial.
My kids have always had multiple wheeled toys to choose from, including tricycles. They both still managed to learn to ride a bike.
There are so many hard decisions in parenthood. Don't take the easy ones and make them hard.
This x 1000! Your MIL is the only one using her brains around here; a NOT QUITE 2 year old needs a damn tricycle. Not a strider bike that is too high for them.
(fwiw, we were big strider bike fans.... at the appropriate age which was for us 3 1/2. My kids were riding bikes without training wheels by 4 1/2.)
Sorrynotsorry for being salty.... I've had a rough week. Thank your MIL for the kind/thoughtful/FREE gift!
Let him use the tricycle. We're strider bike fans. Both kids used them. Both were riding regular pedal bikes at 3 years old. They also had tricycles and scooters and numerous other rising toys. It's not going to harm your child (although I'm with you on the annoying MIL piece).
Post by youhadmycuriosity on Mar 23, 2017 13:08:11 GMT -5
My dad tried SO HARD to teach me to ride a bike without the use of a tricycle. He had a little handle attached to my bike and everything. He let go when I seemed comfortable and I fell- I still HATE bicycles. The kid is 2. Let him use the trike so he doesn't end up like me, lol.
Both of my DDs needed to also use the tricycle so they could get pedaling down even though they were pros on the balance bike. A tricycle is not the same as a bike with training wheels.
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My son got a tricycle for his 2nd birthday and a balance bike for his 3rd. We bought him a 2 wheel bike about a month before his 4th birthday and he was riding it without training wheels within 10 minutes of getting it home. The tricycle taught him pedaling and the balance bike taught him balance. I think they were both very helpful.
We have been hiding his trike away this past couple of weeks though, maybe some would judge that but he can ride either now and would generally choose the trike because it's easier.
I'm really not trying to be petty here and I won't be. We're going to let him use the tricycle. But this is my concern with it. Obviously it's all anecdotal, but H and I have heard good things about the strider and have friends whose kids have learned to ride a bike really quickly because of it. I don't want him to get used to the trike and refuse to use the strider.
I do recognize that this is a pick your battles kind of thing.
We have been hiding his trike away this past couple of weeks though, maybe some would judge that but he can ride either now and would generally choose the trike because it's easier.
I'm really not trying to be petty here and I won't be. We're going to let him use the tricycle. But this is my concern with it. Obviously it's all anecdotal, but H and I have heard good things about the strider and have friends whose kids have learned to ride a bike really quickly because of it. I don't want him to get used to the trike and refuse to use the strider.
I do recognize that this is a pick your battles kind of thing.
no I hear you, if he were closer to three now I'd say forget the trike but I do think few under two or even just two year olds would be able to grasp the strider.
In six months you can revisit. Since he was two though we've always had him try the scoot bike for a minute before handing over the trike. So when I bring them to the park (there's a basketball court that's usually empty there) I bring the scoot bike and trike and wouldn't hand the trike over until he went back and forth at least once on the scoot bike.
Now I think this spring whenever the snow melts, I'll only be bringing the scoot bike and no trike..
So what if he doesn't learn to ride a bike quickly enough, according to you? Is there some scoreboard somewhere that I never heard about? Kids progress through things at their own pace, as they should. You'd rather him have something that he can't even use because he isn't big enough?