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Paula G
Hey There - we are looking to get a couple of bikes to ride around white rock lake with our 22 month old son. We are novices - so we just want something decent, but doesn't need to be the tour de france. Also - what is the best seat for the baby to get? Thanks!
Answer
You do not put a child of 22 months on a bike!!! Are you out of your mind?
OTOH your child can ride WITH you on almost any bike with age appropriate compatible equipment
The child goes on/in the equipment, the equipment attaches to the bike/bikes you choose.
Got it?
Generally speaking if/when your child is old enough to hold his/her head up WITH an infant helmet the progression is usually this:
infant to toddler - best solution is a child trailer. Your kid is sheltered, somewhat protected, sheltered from the sun, and if YOU take a tumble the trailer stays upright!! This will let you go from novice to experienced while your child is safe.
A trailer can go on almost any bike. Some will convert from trailer to jog/stroller.
Check with your local bike shop.
DO NOT BUY AT A BOX STORE. Your LBS will show you how to attach it safely and use it and what bikes will be compatible.
Toddler to lets say maybe 4-5 depending on kid. Some manner of rear mounted child seat. Who knows what will be available by the time the fruit of your loins reaches that age. Same principle, go to your LBS and have them show you how to safely attach it to your bike.
BTW in all this and at all stages GET A HELMET FOR YOUR CHILD and you too. Makes no sense for the child to survive and you to be relearning the alphabet. ;-)
5-9 or so depending on child: tag-along trailer. Like a tandem in principle attaches to your bike. Your child can pedal ... or not. But gets the feeling of participating and helps Mom/Dad move along. You know where said child is (behind you). Said child is not likely to hit me or veer all around the trail unless you do that too ;-)
9 and up plus or minus depending on your child, their interest etc now you may be talking ride with their very own bike or some equip a tandem with crankset the right length for said kid (which can be adjusted as your kid grows)
Have fun out there!!!!!!
You do not put a child of 22 months on a bike!!! Are you out of your mind?
OTOH your child can ride WITH you on almost any bike with age appropriate compatible equipment
The child goes on/in the equipment, the equipment attaches to the bike/bikes you choose.
Got it?
Generally speaking if/when your child is old enough to hold his/her head up WITH an infant helmet the progression is usually this:
infant to toddler - best solution is a child trailer. Your kid is sheltered, somewhat protected, sheltered from the sun, and if YOU take a tumble the trailer stays upright!! This will let you go from novice to experienced while your child is safe.
A trailer can go on almost any bike. Some will convert from trailer to jog/stroller.
Check with your local bike shop.
DO NOT BUY AT A BOX STORE. Your LBS will show you how to attach it safely and use it and what bikes will be compatible.
Toddler to lets say maybe 4-5 depending on kid. Some manner of rear mounted child seat. Who knows what will be available by the time the fruit of your loins reaches that age. Same principle, go to your LBS and have them show you how to safely attach it to your bike.
BTW in all this and at all stages GET A HELMET FOR YOUR CHILD and you too. Makes no sense for the child to survive and you to be relearning the alphabet. ;-)
5-9 or so depending on child: tag-along trailer. Like a tandem in principle attaches to your bike. Your child can pedal ... or not. But gets the feeling of participating and helps Mom/Dad move along. You know where said child is (behind you). Said child is not likely to hit me or veer all around the trail unless you do that too ;-)
9 and up plus or minus depending on your child, their interest etc now you may be talking ride with their very own bike or some equip a tandem with crankset the right length for said kid (which can be adjusted as your kid grows)
Have fun out there!!!!!!
Would you rather parents be blissfully ignorant or paranoid of dangers?
Victor
In the world today, information travels fast, extremely fast. We know that children are killed, kidnapped, murdered, etc from big things to small things. We know the story of a child (one child out of millions) who was kidnapped from a school. We also know of the dangers and crimes everywhere around us. We now know everything! All this knowledge should help us make better rational choices about our children, right?
Well, some parents do make rational and good decisions for their children. The rest? Mass paranoia. Because of this knowledge, a lot of parents nowadays are paranoid of everything and puts their kids in a bubble making sure their kids do nothing.
Lots of kids are loosing their childhood because because their parents just are afraid of knowing what can happen to their kids. Even letting the kids bike around the neighborhood (let a lone letting them walk a mile to school) is dangerous because some mean person will kidnap them!!
Was it better before, when we didn't know about the kidnappings five states away or is it better now that we know everything out there - every danger no matter how small or rare?
Answer
I think this whole "stranger danger" thing is blown way out of proportion. Child abductions and molestations have sunk to an all time
low and they are becoming less and less. I think its wrong that some parents mainly "paranoid" Moms teach their kids to "fear" strangers. 99.9% of strangers would never harm a child, or is even sexually attracted to it for that matter.
I was at my friends grandson's t-ball game and he is 5 turning 6 this May and these\ 2 women sitting next to me started getting into the whole stranger danger thing amongst themselves because one of the teams didn't have the boys names on the back of their jerseys and they were like "yeah that is probably so some wacko or whatever can't just go out and call a kids name or whatever" and she used the name Matthew because that was her kids name. I was thinking to myself, "oh my god get over your paranoid self." That had nothing to do with stranger danger by the way. Some of the teams (because its t-ball) just didn't have the kids names on the back of their jerseys. I told this right to these 2 dimwits. They said like 3 things that got me to turn my head and chime in because of the stupid stuff they were saying. You know the parents of the kids were at the game for crying out loud and everybody trusts one another there. You get some of these "paranoid" Moms and just women in general but mainly Moms and they go so over the top with the stranger danger thing. Its not fair to the kid that these Moms and even some Dads, but mostly Moms make them fear strangers. It just isn't right. Kids approach strangers all the time and once they talk to them and get to know them, they aren't strangers anymore are they? II ts like ok you don't want your freaking kids to get to know anybody because you are this paranoid and un-trusting? Even my friend agreed with me that these 2 ladies were "over the top." Some of these Moms who are this way need to come to grips with reality and that is that the
chances of their kids getting abducted is slim to none. The problem is, the news just over-does it. They take 1 abduction and then drag it on for months and then another one and drag it on for months, so it makes it seem like there is nothing but child abductions. Damn, there are more important things that the news channels need to be showing. Like I said, child abductions have gotten less and less and soon there won't even be any.
I would rather parents be right in middle (balance is the keyword here) and teach their kids when they are young like age 4. As soon as they can talk and they know right from wrong you just give them the whole "don't touch me in the no no spot" talk. Don't teach them to fear anything and that includes strangers. Strangers are people and don't you want your children and your kids to know people? Damn, do you want em to be sad little loners becaase you are paranoid and too over-protective? Now I just noticed you said dangers and at first I thought it said strangers. Well same topic for the most part. Yeah, I don't think parents should be blissfully ignorant nor should they be paranoid and shelter to an extreme. Kids are going to talk to strangers plain and simple and if you teach them to fear strangers, then that makes you a bad parent, or parents, but like I said, the paranoia tends to be "ALL MOM". They need to be able to experience things first-hand. That is how they learn things. Parents teach their kids everything they know, but when they aren't at home and they are out and about, they are constantly learning things that "they" didn't teach them, or maybe something that "they" did, but with a slightly different spin on it. Basically children, kids and teens have to experience things firsthand for themselves too, so they can get their own take on things. They learn things from other people other than their parents and that 9 times out of 10 is a good thing. They need to be able to survive when they get out there into the real world and when they're on their own and how is that going to happen if they are over-sheltered and over-protected? Simple, it isn't folks. Like I said, balance is key in everything you do in life and that also goes with the raising of kids.
I think this whole "stranger danger" thing is blown way out of proportion. Child abductions and molestations have sunk to an all time
low and they are becoming less and less. I think its wrong that some parents mainly "paranoid" Moms teach their kids to "fear" strangers. 99.9% of strangers would never harm a child, or is even sexually attracted to it for that matter.
I was at my friends grandson's t-ball game and he is 5 turning 6 this May and these\ 2 women sitting next to me started getting into the whole stranger danger thing amongst themselves because one of the teams didn't have the boys names on the back of their jerseys and they were like "yeah that is probably so some wacko or whatever can't just go out and call a kids name or whatever" and she used the name Matthew because that was her kids name. I was thinking to myself, "oh my god get over your paranoid self." That had nothing to do with stranger danger by the way. Some of the teams (because its t-ball) just didn't have the kids names on the back of their jerseys. I told this right to these 2 dimwits. They said like 3 things that got me to turn my head and chime in because of the stupid stuff they were saying. You know the parents of the kids were at the game for crying out loud and everybody trusts one another there. You get some of these "paranoid" Moms and just women in general but mainly Moms and they go so over the top with the stranger danger thing. Its not fair to the kid that these Moms and even some Dads, but mostly Moms make them fear strangers. It just isn't right. Kids approach strangers all the time and once they talk to them and get to know them, they aren't strangers anymore are they? II ts like ok you don't want your freaking kids to get to know anybody because you are this paranoid and un-trusting? Even my friend agreed with me that these 2 ladies were "over the top." Some of these Moms who are this way need to come to grips with reality and that is that the
chances of their kids getting abducted is slim to none. The problem is, the news just over-does it. They take 1 abduction and then drag it on for months and then another one and drag it on for months, so it makes it seem like there is nothing but child abductions. Damn, there are more important things that the news channels need to be showing. Like I said, child abductions have gotten less and less and soon there won't even be any.
I would rather parents be right in middle (balance is the keyword here) and teach their kids when they are young like age 4. As soon as they can talk and they know right from wrong you just give them the whole "don't touch me in the no no spot" talk. Don't teach them to fear anything and that includes strangers. Strangers are people and don't you want your children and your kids to know people? Damn, do you want em to be sad little loners becaase you are paranoid and too over-protective? Now I just noticed you said dangers and at first I thought it said strangers. Well same topic for the most part. Yeah, I don't think parents should be blissfully ignorant nor should they be paranoid and shelter to an extreme. Kids are going to talk to strangers plain and simple and if you teach them to fear strangers, then that makes you a bad parent, or parents, but like I said, the paranoia tends to be "ALL MOM". They need to be able to experience things first-hand. That is how they learn things. Parents teach their kids everything they know, but when they aren't at home and they are out and about, they are constantly learning things that "they" didn't teach them, or maybe something that "they" did, but with a slightly different spin on it. Basically children, kids and teens have to experience things firsthand for themselves too, so they can get their own take on things. They learn things from other people other than their parents and that 9 times out of 10 is a good thing. They need to be able to survive when they get out there into the real world and when they're on their own and how is that going to happen if they are over-sheltered and over-protected? Simple, it isn't folks. Like I said, balance is key in everything you do in life and that also goes with the raising of kids.
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