How to teach your child to ride a bike
Tips Educational Program / / December 19, 2019
1. Find a suitable location
Learn better in a quiet place without cars and other people who would scare the child and disturb him. For example, in the playground at school or park.
On the clipped lawns and lawns not afraid of falling, but on soft ground for young children is more difficult to drive than on asphalt. Well, if the track is slightly inclined. So long as the bike will roll.
2. Prepare your bike
If the bike is, ladders, wheels, the first thing is to remove them. From them more harm than good, because they do not allow the child to feel the balance. Ideally, learning to ride on two wheels, otherwise then have to re-learn, and it is more difficult.
Next, remove the pedal crank, so that they do not interfere with train keep balance, Starting from the ground. Remember that the left pedal is left hand thread - loosen the key in a clockwise direction, while the right - the usual, right, and should be unscrewed anti-clockwise. Then pedal will need to install in its place. Problems should arise, usually there is a label L and R.
And the final touch - the height of the saddle. Loosen and adjust so that the sitting took out the baby with both feet to the ground. In other words, he could walk on the bike.
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3. Wear protection
If the hand is knee pads, elbow pads and a helmet, put on everything. Extra caution not hurt. Well, in the case where none of that, it remains to be careful and better to insure the child.
4. Make insurance
In order not to ruin everything on the vine training, make an improvised safety belt of the scarf. Tie his armpits free ends to the back and keep the child for him.
Hold on to the steering wheel or saddleAnd push and hold the bike upright in any case impossible. Give your child some freedom, so that he could feel the control.
5. Train your child to keep a balance
The task of the baby - to learn to ride without pedaling, pushing your feet off the ground. He should sit on the bike, to take hold of the wheel and making a push to pass a couple of meters. Explain that it is necessary to accelerate, and then raise your legs and roll.
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Thus we remove from the equation work with pedals and allows the child to focus solely on keeping balance. This greatly simplifies the task.
Do not forget to insure and encourage the child, even if he is not very successful.
After 30-50 minutes of training or the next day, when the baby is confident will keep a balance, you can learn to pedal.
6. Install the pedal back
Do not confuse their places, and remember that the left is twisted counterclockwise, and the right - clockwise. First, wrap the thread by hand, and then securely tighten the key to the pedals do not fall off during the ride.
7. Lift the seat slightly higher
Now, when the child will not be repelled from the ground, it is necessary to adjust the seat height so that it was convenient to pedal. For starters, you can go for a compromise and set the seat so that the baby barely touch the ground and kicked in the event of a fall could rely on.
8. Introduce your child to the pedals
Pedal and at the same time keep the balance is difficult. Therefore, once again break the big task into small. To begin, place the pedal in a comfortable position, and then ask the child to click on it and just roll as before.
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Gradually complicate the task. Please click on one and the second one by one pedal, and then ride much work. Most likely, at this stage the baby is already able to travel independently.
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9. try to go
Secure skill training simultaneously pedaling and balance retention. Once the baby presses on the pedal, even if does not remove them from the legs. Till bike lost speed and balance, the child should start pedaling.
If there is a partner, let it be a few meters away, and the baby goes from you to him, and vice versa. It is important that the child looked at the man, to which goes, rather than on the pedal.
After a few minutes of practice all guaranteed to work.
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