Some days you put on all your biking gear ( helmet, pads, and gloves) and you are ready to feel the wind in your face and your mom or dad racing to catch up with you. There are other days when a long distance ride around the neighborhood is totally unappealing. You don’t even what to wear the cool gloves.
It is on days that little boys don’t want to ride that their moms or dads have to come up with a game that will help focus on something other then the long ride ahead of them. Practicing bike riding with training wheels that have just been raised of the ground needs to happen to help you feel more comfortable. Mom and dad know that even if you feel storing the bike in the garage for awhile would be a better idea.
This mom decided the bike riding game of the day would be How Fast Can You Ride to the Next Shadow. Thankfully there are a lot of tall trees located in front yards in our neighborhood.that cast shadows onto the street.
When you are going a long distance, you have to pace yourself. The muscles in your legs need a chance to warm up and you just tend to travel slowly forward.
You will eventually reach the first shadow. Thankfully it is a large one. You can enjoy a brief respite from the hot sun.
The brief time in the shade might make you feel like biking a little faster to the next shadow. It also gives you a respite on the long distance bike ride.
There are sections of the road that don’t contain any shadows so, when your mom says you can turn around and head home you really pick up speed. You relish the large shadows that you passed over earlier in your ride and you rush to the next large shadow. The long distance bike ride is almost done.
Then in the home stretch you leave mom far behind and rush toward to end of this long distance bike ride. Hoping that when mom finally catches up she will award you a gold medal glass of sweet tea with ice cubes
(Visited 508 times, 1 visits today)
Cute, CUTE post.
=)
That was a lovely idea to ride from shadow to shadow. 🙂
That was so clever!
He looks ready to go for a ride with Pierce. He loves his bike rides!
How FUN!!
That is so sweet! Love your posts!
you are so creative! Great idea to do an Olympic theme!
So cute. Shade respite is so important! Hurry Mom, catch up!
love this post and idea 🙂
That is such a great idea! It is so hard to stay focused on our goals with our little ones aren’t happy!
Awesome. I really like how you make it fun for him and help him break a big task into smaller steps.
Great one… way to set a goal… and reach it… 🙂
Love it.. he looks like such a big kid on that bike 🙂
(Love your neighborhood too!)
That is so awesome!! What a goal for him to reach! He is so cute!
That is just pure genius! Going from shadow to shadow is a great incentive. I’m pretty sure that the thought of winning a gold drink of iced tea would’ve had me out on the bike too! Such a treat in the hot temperatures.
Thank you for your lovely OLympic post @ ‘Kids Bloggers Go Olympics’! Your boy looks greta on hir super shadow bike 😉
With Love,
Angelique
Bless him! Isn’t he adorable?! And away he goes!
great post! and look at him go!!! love the shadow idea!
Awwwww, what a super fun game!
How cute and fun! I absolutely love your pictures!
Look at all those entries. What great stories to be shared this time of year. My little one will soon be learning how to ride a bike…we can’t wait.
Great post! Loved how the pics told the story.
{Melinda} So cute! As they get older, you still have to find those “games” and incentives to motivate them. It just becomes more challenging and the stakes get higher. But the payoffs are still sweet. 🙂
How fun C hasn’t learned to ride his bike yet. Loved your post.
I need to get my kids out there on the bikes more.
I love the riding from shadow to shadow. What a cute idea!
Great idea to ride to the next shadow
That’s a wonderful idea. Our preschooler just started riding his bike, so we will have to give it a try.