Mary let Natalie borrow her balance bike earlier this year. It is an alternative to a bike with training wheels. The idea is that kids learn to balance first, and then they won't need training wheels. The balance bike doesn't have pedals. They push off of the ground with their feet, and then pick their feet up to glide while they balance.
In all honesty I thought we would probably end up also getting a bike with training wheels because learning to ride a bike couldn't possibly be this easy. Natalie just walked the bike around for the first few months we had it, but then something clicked. She figured it out. Now she usually chooses to ride her bike on our walks, and I have to speed walk to keep up with her.
Here is a quick video of her gliding onto the road off of the slight ramp of our driveway. Not the best video, but you get the idea.
Santa knows that she has the balancing down, and she has asked for a pink bike with a doll seat on the back for Christmas, so we'll see what happens.
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