So, I really don't want to come across as mean here--but I am putting this video up none the less. If I really wanted to be nice I would just forget about this little episode all together. However, I cannot forget...it is too funny.
Clare is our biggest scaredy-pants kid. She is exactly like I was as a child (in the scaredy-pants department anyway) and I see no problem with her timidity. Her Daddy thinks she needs to be more confident and brave. She is not a shy person, she is just careful when it comes to doing things that could cause her physical harm. For example, she only started putting her face in the water at the pool last summer...and then ONLY WITH GOGGLES!!!
Clare is seven years old and in the first grade. MOST children living in the suburbs of America in her same age group know how to ride a two-wheeled bike with out training wheels.
Clare does not.
She's never even ridden a two-wheeled bike WITH training wheels.
She is happy to ride a scooter and sees no reason why she should ride a bike, ever.
We decided she needed to be a bike rider. So Will took her out to the school to learn.
This is how things went:
At one point she was screaming so loudly I thought maybe she had ripped her arms off of her own body to get out of learning how to ride a bike...nope.
She did master the bike a few trips later. I should put a video up of her success but this video is more fun.
Way to go Clare!
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