The No-bike Zone: Do We Have To Teach Kids To Ride Bikes?

Posted on 11.06.10

Cue the springy Saturday morning with the proud mom and dad giving the madly grinning kid a shove and a wave as he pedals away for the first time. And I don't need Lenore Skenazy and the Free Range Kids Movement to tell me I shouldn't "protect" my kids by denying them simple, free and healthy pleasures. There is a constant stream of biking families out the window pulling kids in trailers with the cheerful little safety flags. For the nostalgic types out there, I have to point out that cars are way bigger than when we were kids. I don't need a therapist to tell me that this is probably more about being afraid of the unknown than an actual dislike for cycling. (Boston: Not an E. T. -in-the-bike-basket kind of town. Every day here in the suburbs, I see some jerk on a cell phone piloting a monstrous SUV nearly hit a pedestrian out of carelessness. I have covered too many stories of young adults getting mowed over by trucks while biking to work. I know too many veterans of bike accidents who had head injuries and required cosmetic surgery. How emotionally damaged will my kids be if I never teach them to ride a bike.

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