Learning to ride a tricycle is not at all difficult, because it does not need to balance and worry about falling. Usually, children begin to drive themselves almost immediately after they can reach with their feet to the pedals and hands to the helm of the bicycle.
However, the three-wheel models are only for the smallest crumbs, and the older guys want to learn how to ride an ordinary two-wheeled bike. Such bicycles can be planted by the child not earlier than he reaches the age of 3 years. Most children at this age are not ready to skate on their own, and at first you may have serious problems. Little children do not try to turn the pedals forward, but, on the contrary, they start pushing them back, or they completely remove their feet from the pedals directly during the movement.
Such behavior can lead to serious falls and serious injuries, which means that parents should not release the bicycle with the child until they are sure that the baby is fully aware of what is required of him. In this article we will tell you how to quickly and correctly teach a child to ride a two-wheeled bike so that it does not fall, even moving at the highest speed.
Before you start learning a child riding a two-wheeled bike, you need to teach him to keep his balance. The following tips will help you with this.
How to teach a child to keep his balance on a bicycle?
- First, take the bike with you for a walk in the park. The child will certainly want to carry it on his own, holding the saddle. At first the bicycle will swing from side to side, but afterwards the baby will be more confident with it.
- Then it is necessary to unscrew one pedal and lower the seat of the bicycle to the lowest level. Let the child take hands behind the wheel, and put one foot on the pedal. In this situation, the crumb will quickly start pushing the free foot off the ground, simulating the movement on the scooter. At the same time keep the balance of the child is still very difficult, so do not forget to support it if it starts to fall or lean to the side.
After your son or daughter learns to confidently keep the balance, you can proceed directly to learning to ride a two-wheeled bike.
How to gradually teach a child to ride a two-wheeled bicycle?
- Before you teach a child to ride a two-wheeled bike, you need to make sure that he understands that he is required to constantly turn the pedals in the right direction. To do this, you can attach special extra wheels to the bike, but not longer than for 2 weeks. Meanwhile, some professional bicycle riders believe that such an adaptation only prevents the child from concentrating and controlling his driving, so it's better to do without it.
- The next step is to purchase a children's protective kit for cycling. An indispensable element of protection is the helmet. Learning to skate is quite traumatic, and most of all it affects the head. In the event of a serious fall, the consequences may be the most deplorable.
- After the kid learned to keep his balance, the next step parents return the removed pedal to its original place and slowly begin to release the bicycle with the child, without forgetting to pick it up at any moment. The saddle still needs to be lowered to the minimum level so that the kid can reach the ground with his feet.
Further, the seat is raised slightly - so that the child touches the ground with the fingers of the fingers. - Finally, the saddle of the bicycle is regulated by the growth of the child and released "in free swimming". Naturally, at first you can not go far from a bicycle, even if it seems to you that the baby is already riding well enough.
The development of each step usually takes 4-5 days. To the next stage, you can go only if the child is confidently coping with the previous one.