RE: Re: Smart Cycle as therapy tool

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Charlie pedals at 2.5 years, he was riding big weel and tricycle today.

[ ] Re: Smart Cycle as therapy tool

Uggh...

> > >

> > > I've found that a kid-sized stationary bike is a pretty useful

> > therapy

> > > tool. You can buy kid-sized exercise bikes (you can google

them)

> > or

> > > you can use what we use which it a little less boring...

> > >

> > > We got our 4.5 year old son a Fisher Price Smart Cycle for

> > Christmas

> > > (it hooks to the TV and you play educational video games

powered

> by

> > > the pedaling). Pedaling was the one gross-motor skill that he

> > > lacked. At first he would only pedal backwards, but I sat in

the

> > > floor next to him and moved the pedal forward with my hand.

> After

> > a

> > > while all I had to do was have my had near it and he would

pedal

> > (sort

> > > of like the 'run alongside the bike and the kid doesn't know

you

> > are

> > > no longer holding on' thing). Then after a couple of days of

> that

> > he

> > > would just hop on and begin pedaling forward and playing the

> video

> > > games that go along with it.

> > >

> > > We recently had a warm day and were outside. He hopped on a

big-

> > wheel

> > > type vehicle that he has had for a long time and began pedaling

> > around

> > > the driveway as if he had done it that way forever...only this

> was

> > the

> > > first time he had ever powered a pedal-type vehicle by

pedaling.

> > He

> > > had always just pushed with his feet " Fred Flintstone " style.

> > >

> > > I think the stationary status of the bike helped him learn the

> > motor

> > > plan with the confidence he wasn't going to fall. As soon as it

> > gets

> > > warm again - I'll have him trying it on his bike with training

> > wheels!

> > >

> >

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