{"id":955,"date":"2011-02-16T21:47:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T20:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2011-02-16T21:52:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T20:52:47","slug":"nearly-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"nearly ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we persuaded Lily to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=662\" target=\"_blank\">ditch her stabilisers<\/a>. Within days this was the pathway to a whole new world of faster bike riding and saddle sores.<\/p>\n<p>Joel seems reluctant to follow suit. No: he adamantly refuses to follow suit. He&#8217;s younger than Lily was but only by a year and, as with the toilet training, I arguably left it a bit late with Lily.<\/p>\n<p>I think we can use the experience of the slight incline by the playground&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"iphone-20110208 006 by stephen_hanlon, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevehanlon\/5431337853\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4101\/5431337853_2f556865a3.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-20110208 006\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;to persuade him that being able to go faster more often is a Good Thing. Plus at the playground there&#8217;s a bike and skate park. At the moment I feel like L &amp; J move too slowly and are too much of a target for the older kids to crash into. Bizarrely I think they&#8217;d be a bit safer if they were a bit faster when other kids are there.<\/p>\n<p>He did, however, find cycling up the &#8230;slight incline&#8230; quite hard work.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevehanlon\/5431338947\/\" title=\"iphone-20110208 007 by stephen_hanlon, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5298\/5431338947_24b787b20b.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"iphone-20110208 007\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet another DITCH-THE-STABILISERS argument! And yes, he&#8217;s nearly ready for a new helmet. It seems his head has grown.<br \/>\n<a title=\"iphone-20110208 001 by stephen_hanlon, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevehanlon\/5431341311\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5096\/5431341311_a852e87e09.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-20110208 001\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we persuaded Lily to ditch her stabilisers. Within days this was the pathway to a whole new world of faster bike riding and saddle sores. Joel seems reluctant to follow suit. No: he adamantly refuses to follow suit. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=955\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}