That seems weird. Where I live (not in the US), many parents feel bad if their children are not able to ride a bike when they are 4 or 5 years old. (Of course we do not let them ride their bikes alone / in the traffic until they are older.)
Of course it’s weird. My dad, at 11, was allowed to ride his bike all around Queens, NY, with a friend. I, even at 17 in the early 2000s, was not allowed to ride my bike unsupervised in our own cul-de-sac in the suburbs, let alone to actually go anywhere. Sanity and sense have nothing to do with it.
Reminds me of this: “If you watch Stranger Things with your kids, there’s a good chance they think the strangest things of all are not the slimy monsters without faces but the kids riding their bikes without parental supervision.”
That seems weird. Where I live (not in the US), many parents feel bad if their children are not able to ride a bike when they are 4 or 5 years old. (Of course we do not let them ride their bikes alone / in the traffic until they are older.)
Of course it’s weird. My dad, at 11, was allowed to ride his bike all around Queens, NY, with a friend. I, even at 17 in the early 2000s, was not allowed to ride my bike unsupervised in our own cul-de-sac in the suburbs, let alone to actually go anywhere. Sanity and sense have nothing to do with it.
Reminds me of this: “If you watch Stranger Things with your kids, there’s a good chance they think the strangest things of all are not the slimy monsters without faces but the kids riding their bikes without parental supervision.”