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Christmas Gift Idea for Adventurous Kids ages 1 – 5

What’s more exciting than getting a new bike - especially on Christmas Day?  To be honest, as a young child, I don’t think there was anything better than getting a shiny new bike.  The old bike was usually too short and had too many bangs and scratches on it to count.  New bikes bring a feeling of excitement with all the future adventures you will have together.  Do you also remember learning to ride a bike?  Uh,,, how hard was that? I had training wheels on my bike for what seemed like FOREVER.  I wanted to go, go, go, but my wheels kept me from going to all those exciting places I wanted to explore.  Training wheels just don’t work in deep mud puddles.

My daughter along with other toddlers will no longer have to go through the painful experience of “learning” how to ride a bike.  Much like talking, they will just learn on their own with the Strider Running Bike.  This Bike for toddlers, doesn’t have any peddles, is low to the ground and is made specifically for little ones to learn balance.  So before getting your kids a trike with 3 wheels, go straight for a two wheeler.

Strider Running Bike is suggested for children ages 1 – 5.  I would say the earlier you start your kid on the Strider Running Bike, the better.  The benefit to the Strider Running Bike is your child learns balance without really having to learn – they will just end up “getting” it on their own – much like a language.  We’re not sure how we learn to talk as a baby, we just do.

For review, Strider Sports Canada sent us a bike in pink.  The bike came packaged up, and was easy to assemble (it even came with it’s own wrench).  It took about 5 minutes to just add the front wheel and the handlebars.  At first, Genevieve was a little reluctant with her new toy, but after she saw me running and pushing the Strider around, she wanted to have fun too.

I sat her on the low seat, which is the perfect hight for her – as she gets taller, the seat can go higher.   I pushed her around the house and she enjoyed herself.  There were lots of giggles and smiles.  Then, she wanted to be independent – she started walking herself around on the Strider bike.  At first, she was walking alongside the bike and pushing with the handlebars.  She had to make sure that the bike stayed up as she walked along. Sometimes it fell over, but she would pick it up and try again. She then put her leg over the seat and started walking along with the bike with each foot on either side of the bike.  She’s pretty slow, but it’s great to see her trying.  She does not yet sit on the seat and push herself, but just walking around with the bike is an excellent start.

strider-running-bike-1I will continue to let her use the Strider Running Bike. For toddlers, this is the easiest and best way that they can learn to ride a bike without “having to learn”.   I can see an improvement in her abilities in just a short amount of time.  She will probably be the youngest bike rider around town.   Because she is so young, she wont have any memory of learning how to ride a bike, and will probably be teaching other kids how to ride their bikes.

I wish Strider bikes existed when I was a child.

Buy it: To purchase, visit Strider Sports Canada and Strider Sports in US

Giveaway: 2 Lucky My Wee View readers are going to win a Strider bike.  One Canadian and one US readers are going to win a Strider Bike ($135CDN & $98US )

To Enter: Visit Strider Sports Canada, and make a comment back here about something you saw on their site.  Also, please leave your state or province.

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Giveaway closes December  11th @ 11:59 pm PST. Open to US and Canada

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