Short aside on training wheels: balance bikes are a thing that I only learned about this past year as my niece was using one to learn how to ride a bike. Their claim is that steering and balance are the hard parts of learning to ride a bike, not pedaling and breaking. This seems “Duh!” obvious in retrospect.
So it seems like it training wheels try to get rid of having to balance at all, and have you focus on things that aren’t super essential, and then force you to make a big scary jump. Balance bikes start you with balance in a situation where that’s all there is to focus on, and once you have that, adding pedals is easy (my niece was able to ride her actual bike on the first shot).
I’m enjoying the irony that training wheels, the literal go to metaphor concerning assisted learning phases, are a bad example of it. I wonder what else might be similar.
Short aside on training wheels: balance bikes are a thing that I only learned about this past year as my niece was using one to learn how to ride a bike. Their claim is that steering and balance are the hard parts of learning to ride a bike, not pedaling and breaking. This seems “Duh!” obvious in retrospect.
So it seems like it training wheels try to get rid of having to balance at all, and have you focus on things that aren’t super essential, and then force you to make a big scary jump. Balance bikes start you with balance in a situation where that’s all there is to focus on, and once you have that, adding pedals is easy (my niece was able to ride her actual bike on the first shot).
I’m enjoying the irony that training wheels, the literal go to metaphor concerning assisted learning phases, are a bad example of it. I wonder what else might be similar.