The Bike Ride Bribe

While Camping at Doheny, we thought we would try to teach Jackson how to ride his bike (which is already to small for him). We have been trying for awhile, but he is just never interested--he would rather be playing the computer. But since we were camping, and had no computers, we thought he might want to try. We were wrong. We had to bribe him by saying that the only way he could go play with his little friend (Cameron Lackey) was to ride his bike over to their campsite, because it was far away.

I didn't realize just how far it really was. Although it was only a two minute walk, it turned out to be about a 20 minute bike ride for the poor little guy. Although not the most successful teaching moment as far as bike riding goes, we did get a chance to teach the concept of "enduring to the end"...

He sure looks handsome in his spiderman helmet, though.

It took us about ten minutes to coax him into starting...he was super busy making faces in the reflection of the truck...

Although not so quick on the bike (he never actually moved forward because the brakes kept tripping him up), he finally made it to his little friend's camp, just in time to say goodbye as Cameron left with his dad. Oh well!! I was the lucky one who got to carry the bike back to camp...