Cycling - checked!

Hayley is always very different from other kids even when she was young. She's got her own style and her own ways. Even when learning to ride a tricycle was no different.

When most kids her age will get on the tricylce, and most wouldn't know how to cycle yet, they will normally use their feet to push the tricycle forward or backwards until a few months down the road when they finally mastered the art of cycling.

Hayley was given her 1st tricycle when she was pretty young. If not mistaken at about 18 months. At that time her legs weren't long enough to reach the ground and therefore we normally just push her around the house. She wasn't that keen and didn't really make a lot of requests to ride on the tricycle.

As she got older and taller, she started going up the tricycle on her own. We taught her what she needed to do to get up and get down on her own and she picked it up like a pro. Only 1 lesson and she did it right since then everytime. As she got older and with longer legs, she would get up the tricycle, put her legs on the pedal and use her body strength to move the tricycle, she still didn't know how to cycle. When she failed to move the tricycle, she would ask us to push her. We did a few times and she enjoyed the free ride.

Even when she couldn't cycle, she will not use her legs to push herself forward like most kids. Maybe she didn't do it because we didn't teach her BUT she did see a couple of kids in the playground doing that so I am sure she will pick it up if she wants to.

We taught her every now and then how to cycle by holding her feet on the pedal and doing the cycle motion for her. So finally at 25 months, she cycled, on her own. She can now cycle forward and backward (short distance) and only going in a straight line. We're planning to teach her how to manouver in a few weeks cause we're not ready to have a little kid cycling around the house and banging into all the furnitures yet.

We're so proud of her as she chose to learn cyling the right way from the start!