mydarlingdevils

Killing two phrases with one bike…

With the entire world shutting down because of Covid19, neighborhoods all over the world are asking their kids to practice social distancing. One way to do this and still get out is to go on Bike rides.

So, J has been going on Bike rides daily and sometimes I join. K has not been joining us. He doesn’t have a bike.  He is the first kid in the history of kids to claim to have forgotten how to ride a bike. He learned when he was five and then forgot.  I tell him it’s impossible to forget how to ride a bike. I tell him there is literally a phrase about it.  He insists he has!!

Finally, I’ve had it. I tell him he is going to get on J’s bike and he’s not coming back into the house until he can ride that damn bike.  He gets on the bike and in shock, I realize I can no longer use ‘you never forget how to ride a bike’.

Happy ending though – he did relearn and the next day we got him a bike and now him and J ride their bikes for hours a day.

As I said – sometimes I join them.  Yesterday we were on a bike ride and J wants to ride his bike down a very steep set of stairs.  He asks – “Can I try it?”

“No J. You are going to break your arm and the last thing the hospitals need right now with everything going on – is to fix a broken arm of a kid trying out a dangerous bike stunt.”  He thinks a bit. Then he says “Ok. So when all of this is over and the hospitals aren’t so busy. Can I try it then?”

Now I can no longer use the phrase ‘there’s no such thing as a dumb question”