A balance bike They don't have pedals, kids learn to ride without the use of training wheels (which I think are a PITA and I wish I had used a balance bike for the first 3!).
My son was three on Friday, he too will not pedal on his trike that he has, but does love to ride. Just can't do it on his own, he loves it when we push him. So we got him a kids BMX bike with a parent handle that we can use to steer him. We take it for walks in the arvo & he loves it (we gave it to him early a few weeks ago). He's now getting really good with the pedals!
Otherwise, what does he like or what do you like to do with him? My DH is away lots for work so we try to get them to do things together without me, one thing he likes is fishing so we got him his own fishing rod, also books with CD's (he loves me reading to him at night, but not always easy when BF DS2).
Some small things he got at his party that he just loves, a Thomas watch, never thought to get him a watch but he's worn it everyday since his birthday. He also got a torch that you shine on the wall & it has a pic of a space ship onn it & you can change the pictures over....gone to sleep with that every night.
And I second the train set, he spends hours with his trains & mega blocks building bridges & tunnels. HTH.
it's a bike without pedals, so they scoot... When they get really good you will find that they can balance quite well on it and then you just add pedals and they should be confident enough to ride with two wheels bypassing the training wheels altogether.
My DD turned three on Saturday. We got her a big girl bike with a handle. I can push her whne she needs help and she is learning to pedal. Considering it's the first time even she has been on a pedal bike she does really well! Other than that we got her an umbrella, raincoat and gumboots. Fairly cheap and she absolutely adores it all! We also got her some nice pencils, textas and crayons in a nice pencil case and a colouring book and scrapbook. She really loves that too..
We already have duplo and DD is getting really creative with her building and will sit for a fair while and build. She also loves her trainset. She need me to help build the tracks, but will drive the trains around for ages and will also set up the accessories, and her Dora dolls around it all, lol! Another favourite thing is her painting stuff- easel/chalkboard, paint brushes and chalk Keeps her occupied for ages too!
The ideas sound great! Where did you get your bikes from and what brands are they? I get so confused looking at them! I haven't seen the BMX with a parent handle before, that sounds good.
Nice to see you on here Liviam How are your goegeous kidlets going? I can't believe it has been over three years since they came and you have your little man too!
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They don't have pedals, kids learn to ride without the use of training wheels (which I think are a PITA and I wish I had used a balance bike for the first 3!).
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