My son refuses to ride a bike!

Nicole - posted on 04/20/2010

My daughter was the same and she had a good friend that helped teach her. Then my daughter helped my friends daughter learn. So if you son has a close friend, ask him to help your son because he might be embarresed to fall in front of too many kids. Hope it helps

Andrea - posted on 09/30/2009

Quoting Sharon:

Occassionaly there might be something that our children don't want to do so for the time being we need to accept that. Offer the bike when going outside to play, but if he choses the scooter, skateboard, or something else like playing basketball instead be supportive of that. Continue to offer supportive comments about how much fun it is to ride a bike, and one day he just might ask for it. Good luck.

Totally agree with Sharon.  He'll ride it when he's ready.  Forcing it on him because you want him to will probably make him detest it that much more.

MaryGrace - posted on 09/12/2009

My son was the same way. He was constantly getting distracted when he was 4-6 and looking at other things I would go out with him when he had the training wheels on and I woulds be yelling "watch where you're going and not where you've been" he fell a couple of times and that was the end of it. I finally got him a new bike without training wheels when he was 8 and his excuse for not riding it was that he didn't want to get it dirty. Finally we took him to the park and were running behind him and trying to get him to ride he was scared of falling. Finally, in my frustaration I told him to ride on the grass that way if he fell he wouldn't get hurt. He got on the grass and took off without any problems. He was so proud of himself that he could ride a bike with 2 wheels. once he saw that he wasn't falling it was easy to transition to the sidewalk.

Crystal - posted on 09/01/2009

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one having problems. My 8 year old son is the same. This makes me feel a little better.

Sharon - posted on 08/12/2009

Occassionaly there might be something that our children don't want to do so for the time being we need to accept that. Offer the bike when going outside to play, but if he choses the scooter, skateboard, or something else like playing basketball instead be supportive of that. Continue to offer supportive comments about how much fun it is to ride a bike, and one day he just might ask for it. Good luck.

Amber - posted on 08/11/2009

My daughter was the same was. When we took her training wheels off, she wanted nothing to do with her bike. Our friend got her a new bike for Christmas and still nothing. We worked with her and encourged her and still nothing. She did finally learn and start enjoying her bike again after she was 7 years old when her friend in the neighborhood showed her how to do it. I went to watch them and he was doing the same things we were helping her with. I think it was seeing all her friends having fun on their bikes and the encourgement from her friends that helped her out in the long run.

Gloria - posted on 08/11/2009

We had a hard time getting our daughter to ride her bike also she was so afraid of falling. we had to be out there with her helping her the whole time. we took her to a big parking lot so she didn't have to worry about steering straight. then after she got the hang of it we worked on steering. it took a few trips to get her comfortable with it. but now she rides with all her friends. hope this is helpful.