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On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:04:19 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 23:00:10 -0400, Joy Beeson
><jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 08:16:26 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> Just think. All over the world people are getting on bicycles and
>>> riding them with out the benefit of Frank's "can't ride with out one"
>>> books. 
>>
>>In Thailand, the people teaching children how to ride know how to
>>ride.  In the U.S., some children were taught that if two children are
>>riding side-by-side and they see a car coming, one of them must dash
>>across the road in front of the car, so that they can force it to pass
>>between them.   This somehow "makes more room".
>
>I beg to daffier. Here (Thailand) then usual way a kid gets a bicycle
>is either the parents just give him one or he nags the parents until
>they do and in nearly all cases they set the bike in the driveway and
>say something like, "Well, here's your bike."
>
>I live in a rather extensive housing project with a lot of kids and
>what I see is the kids out in the street fumbling around until they
>teach themselves to ride. No parental assistance.
>
>Which is just how I and my running mates  learned. Get a bicycle for
>Christmas and just got on and rode. No parental assistance.

The only thing one can do to "teach" a kid to ride a bicycle is to
hold the bike upright until the kid learns to counter the lean by
steering into it. In my opinion, that proceedure most always comes via
trial and error. The parent holding the bike upright is insignificant
in the process.