Kids of EB

[snickerd3]

snickette is going to be a handful as she gets older.  You tell her not to do something and she smirks back and does it anyways before you finish telling her not to do it.  Definitely an act first than think sort of personality.  Complete opposite of her brother who thinks through most possible outcomes, weighs the risks, then acts (not always the best choice made but when asked he clearly thought it through and was willing to accept the results).  

 

[snickerd3]

so minisnick hadn't wanted to practice riding his bike in well over a month after routine asking do you want to try.  He had figured out how to ride if someone helped him get started but he was still prone to falling when he wanted to stop.  he wasn't a fan so basically wanted nothing to do with his bike.  This weekend i asked if I got him knee/elbow pads would he try riding his bike.  he said yes.  $15 and 15 minutes later he was riding, turning around and starting/stopping by himself and asked to take the pads off.  he literally spent probably 4 hrs on his bike this weekend.  he said his butt hurt last night

silly kid

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

Started mini-Ram on potty training this weekend.  All I can say is that I really hope this goes by quickly. 

On another note, looks like we'll be spending a lot of time at the park playing in the sprinklers this summer.  We pretty much have to drag him out of the park once he's there.

 

[Road Guy]

I don't have fond memories from those days, best advice I ever got was to just let the kid wear "real" underwear and it speeds it up quickly, pull ups will drag the process out.. they need to feel the "gross" and they somehow learn faster..

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

We've definitely switched to real undies.  Trying to keep him in the wood/tiled floor areas since that makes cleanups of the accidents easier.  I'm really hoping he's one of the fast learners because this stage is just not fun.

 

[snickerd3]

I don't have fond memories from those days, best advice I ever got was to just let the kid wear "real" underwear and it speeds it up quickly, pull ups will drag the process out.. they need to feel the "gross" and they somehow learn faster..

yep.  At home we used bigboy underwear with cloth training pant over to help contain the wet.  trying to get pee out of carpet isn't fun.  

 

[Road Guy]

it seemed like it took 2 weeks for my boys and a week for the girl..

 

[snickerd3]

we are approaching the transition from chewable allergy meds to swallowing pills.  Once this last box of claritin is gone minisnick has to make a choice.  swallow a pill or take the yucky tasting redi tabs that dissolve on his tongue.

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

it seemed like it took 2 weeks for my boys and a week for the girl..

2 weeks I can deal with.  I'm convinced he's just being lazy at this point because he knows exactly when he needs to go.  

 

[Road Guy]

it sucks but once he figures it out its like reaching the summit of Everest!

 

[matt267 PE]

Kids are too much work.

 

[NJmike PE]

Kids are too much work.

especially once you have multiple kids

:thumbs:

 

[matt267 PE]

especially once you have multiple kids

:thumbs:

Sounds like fun.

 

[matt267 PE]

I finally got my 9 y/o, yes, my 9 y/o, to ride a bike without training wheels.

She was always too nervous to take the the training wheels off. Then some kid made fun of her at school for needing training wheels. So for the last few years she completely refused to ride. She would say "it's boring, dumb, and not fun." I told her she no longer has a choice and she will learn how to ride her bike this summer. I followed REI's suggestions on how to teach kids to ride ( https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/teach-child-to-ride-a-bike.html ). After about 3 hours of practice, spread out over the last 4 days, she was riding around the neighborhood last night with pedals and no training wheels. She was excited about how much fun she was having. I told her I knew she would like it. She said it was the first time that I was every right.

If I had to do it again, I would have started her on a balance bike and would have never used a bike with training wheels.

 

[snickerd3]

i was late to riding a bike too, it didn't help the first time the training wheels came off I rode straight into a metal fence post

now as soon as we get home minisnick is like can i ride my bike.  Not having sidewalks means he has to ride on the road, and while we are not on rd that gets traffic (a loop off the main rd) it still scares me slightly that he will get run over by the random truck/boater who turned one rd too early on their way to lake and slams the gas whent hey realize they made the wrong turn.

 

[matt267 PE]

I rode straight into a metal fence post

Yeah, that doesn't help with the confidence.

Not having sidewalks

Same here. My daughter will now have to learn to make better decision when cars are coming.

 

[knight1fox3]

If I had to do it again, I would have started her on a balance bike and would have never used a bike with training wheels.

That's good to hear as we are going this route as well. 

 

[snickerd3]

^yeah that would have helped minisnick too.  We ended up taking both the training wheels and the pedals off his bike last year to make it is balance bike of sorts

 

[Road Guy]

now you need to get them a $2000 mtn bike!

 

[snickerd3]

now you need to get them a $2000 mtn bike!

he can use the beat up hand me down bike from the neighbor...he actually really likes it