Making Progress...

So she's probably the only 8 year old who doesn't know how to ride a bike. That being said we've been working on this whole bike riding thing for quite some time. Last year when she fell and scarred up her knee she was just not ready to do it anymore. This fall I took her over to the parking lot and had her go over all the important skills... she'd had it... didn't want me to "help" anymore... she wanted to do it on her own... even if that meant starting off with her foot on the brake... which by the way left us both frustrated!

Today I read something on a blog where they had their child learn to ride in their backyard... I thought it was worth a try... if nothing else she'd have a somewhat soft landing. I got her all outside ready to try and she did NOT want me to coach her... frustrating! She did let Daddy talk to her and she listened about what to do etc.

First try going over the whole process...

For 20 minutes she pedaled a foot at a time with Daddy holding on... finally Daddy let go... stopped and she made it to the end of the yard! She continued to do that a few more tries before we had to head to Walker's soccer practice.

I think once she gets that "feeling" of how to balance she will finally get it and be off. It helps when you have that determination to want to do something as well and I think she has that now and as gotten a bit of self confidence to get over that first step of being scared.

Hoping it doesn't rain so we can try again tomorrow.