Balance Bike

I seldom bought toys for my kids lately, and I avoid the small many pieces of toys ( like ice cream toys set, sushi set, etc) I have enough of that scattered around my living room. And I like to have my kids play outdoor  in our apartment compound( because we do not have our own yard now).

A few months back I saw this type of bike at Indy's friend house. It is wooden ( lovely!! ) and the bike has no pedal.And a 3 years old can "run" with it and balance. So that is " balance bike" or "run bike" or pedal less bike!
It will teach the kids to learn how to balance the bike naturaly. While Maya already has a small bike with training wheels, and she is good at pedaling, she  , like many kids on her age, still depends on the training wheels.
Indy just mastered the bike a few months back, and it was a pain for me to taught her. Thanks God it was just a short process but still .......^_^

So I decided to buy this balance bike for Maya.

 

This is the description of the bike :

Using its own legs for balance and movement your child will have instant success without the falls, scrapes and frustration common to learning how to ride a conventional bike. Later on the transfer to a bike will be extremely easy for each kid because of the skills it learned before.

We learn to crawl before we can walk, and run before we can bike. So why do kids have to leap from tricycles to bicycles without learning how to balance a bike on their own?

Bicycles with training wheels are one way, but these can give a child a false confidence when those training wheels come off. Teaching your child to ride a bike with a pedal free wooden bicycle or metal bike introduces balance, steering, and speed control before they push the pedals of their first two-wheeler.