...is that Kyle ruined it for Taryne. Not on purpose. But it happened. She was riding her bike with confidence and was doing really good about going up and down small hills and was sort of getting the hang of the brakes and then it happened. She insisted on riding it to the park. We were in the church (right next to our apartment complex) parking lot and there is a bit of a hill where we get into the parking lot and Kyle gave her a "nudge" and she started going a little too fast. Then she started to turn the handles a little and was about to fall. I said something to Kyle along the lines of "don't you let her fall" and he ran over an caught her and the bike as it was about to crash. So she never hit the ground and didn't get hurt and didn't skin a knee or anything. Just scared the confidence out of her. Now we can't get her to get on the bike and when we finally talk her into it, she creeps along and 1 inch every hour type speed and says she is going too fast. :( sigh.
Now she wants a scooter. Guess what? She is not getting a scooter until she can ride her bike and not be scared. This past week she finally said she wanted to ride her bike and practice again. Until we got it out. She went 2 feet and said she was done. Lovely. At least she got on the bike. Maybe we can make progress this summer.
These were pics from "before" when she would ride all over and wasn't scared.
We would love to get bikes...maybe after this summer she will be a pro.
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