Learning to ride a bike is the first challenge of every child's life. As Asama observes, some children carry this quite easily. They can start cycling for the first time. However, for some other kids, cycling is a hard challenge. No matter how many times they practice, they get frustrated. Seeing their children like this, parents were worried.
So let's see with Asama what causes children to practice cycling many times but can't? Have your parents done the following?
Keeping the child's mentality always strong
From the age of 3, almost every family buys a bicycle for their child because of the benefits. The bike is like a toy but also as a means of transportation for children later. At first, children will be very excited about this new toy. But as soon as the child falls during the exercise. If you are not around to encourage the child, the child will be psychologically, and it will be difficult for the next practice.
You shouldn't be too impatient to force the child to go immediately. This will make the child feel pressured. Children do not believe in themselves as well as the support people. So somehow, you help children completely rest assured that no matter what happens, you will always be there. You encourage children so that children are psychologically stable. Tell your child that few people can be successful from the beginning. As long as they know how to try, they will succeed. When the psychological condition is overcome, the child will soon learn to ride a bike.
Note that do not let anyone have the mentality of disparaging or belittling if your child is slower than other children.
Going to the ideal location
Bicycles are a strange thing for children. They need to adapt to this new thing. You should not be in a hurry, but let the child be curious and want to go. You need to prepare a suitable bicycle and an ideal location for your kid.
The ideal cycling location could be in a large park or on a gentle slope, as long as it's away from busy streets and things that can cause stress. In addition, you should stimulate your kid's desire to ride a bike by taking them to a place where many children are riding bicycles to make them more excited. Asama especially recommends that children who are just learning to ride a bike will inevitably fall. To make them safer, parents can buy them a helmet.
Teach children to balance by sitting on a bicycle and...walking
Children can run a two-wheeled bike quickly. They need to learn to balance. Keeping balance is an important and most prerequisite factor in driving. To learn this skill, you put the child on a bike of the right height, with its feet flat on the ground and still have a distance of about 3-5 cm between the bottom and the saddle. Initially, you should keep your kid until they learn to walk with a bicycle. At this time, children know how to balance between the legs. Children practice more times to be able to keep a good balance.
Cycling
After your child has mastered good balance with a bicycle. It's finally time for your baby to learn to ride a bike. You teach children how to use pedals. Better yet, you should show your children how bicycles work, so that they can understand and help them gain more knowledge. After a period of practice, your child can proudly pedal around without his feet touching the ground. You should also remember to gradually raise the saddle corresponding to the height of the child, helping them to ride comfortably.
You do not hold the saddle when the baby is running. This makes the rear of the bike heavier and the child loses balance when practicing. This is often the reason why when learning to ride a bike, parents let go of their hands and the baby will fall.
Teach your child how to use the brake
A relatively difficult task for many children is learning to use brakes. There are children who keep their balance well, ride well, but do not know how to use the brake. As a result, children must crash somewhere to be able to stop the bike.
This is very dangerous for the kid, as well as damage to the bike.
Because the children's brain is still quite small to handle many tasks at the same time. Without the training process, the child cannot both use their foot pedal and use their hand to squeeze the brake.
Another reason, sometimes parents teach children to ride a bike very well, but the brake instruction is often neglected. Parents should teach their children how these brakes work, transmission lines, how the wheels are blocked when the baby presses the brake, when the baby should brake,... Parallel to the instruction, you let the kid try many times so that the kid gets used to the hand and knows the combination more proficiently.
After referring to Asama's five reasons above, parents should not worry anymore and start practicing more for their children.