“Through the window in the kitchen I can see outside
My kids taking turns coming down the slide
I try not to worry as they grow a little every day
I've just got believe they're gonna find their way” >BNChapman
Over the afternoon weekend, my two boys won me over to accompany them to the new residential subdivision nearby our house to play basketball and to teach them to ride the bicycle.
Roland was more adept playing ball while Michael on biking.
Both have been practicing riding the bike but it is the three wheeled type, so this experience with the two wheeled type is new to them.
Roland I suppose will need a lot more sessions. Michael will learn ahead of Roland and after a few rounds, he is proudly saying that he can ride the bicycle on his own and wanted me to let go of the rider’s seat as he rode the bike.
I can see that Michael can control the bike when it is already running at a moderate speed. He only has difficulty at start up, turning, and stopping.
And that he painfully realized when I did let him ride on his own and in the process, he first hit a lady passing by when he tried to maneuver the bicycle to turn back.
I rushed to their area and checked on them if anybody was hurt. Good thing nobody was hurt or injured. Michael quickly got away from the area when I arrived and after I have checked on them. I can see that he is afraid and embarrassed about the incident.
I thought it was the end of learning to ride for the day, but after getting away from the collision area, he is trying again to ride the bicycle. I let him and after getting a little further, he got out balanced and bumped the rear end of a parked tricycle.
He suffered a scratch wound on his left leg and after picking himself up, walks straight towards our house.
Two collision for the day but I knew that the eagerness to learn will still be there given the time, healed wound or not.
And I look forward to reading on this experience of his, in his diary.
so, your son, Michael, keeps his own diary too! ^.^ how young are these two sons of yours?
TumugonBurahinMichael is 10, Roland 9. I gave them each that jollibee planner that came out on their 30th anniversary. I instructed them to at least write there a memorable experience which I read whenever I arrive home in the evening. I wish that through this, they will be very observant about the things that is happenning around them, develop their writing and reading. These little things, maybe insignificant today, but after sometime, they will be memories to be cherished, more fond as the years go by.
TumugonBurahin