Would You Hire Someone to Teach Your Kid to Ride?

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Teaching your child to ride a bike is so passé. You may think it’s your job to teach balancing, pedaling, and braking, but busy parents now have options.


Canadian writer Rebecca Eckler recently confessed to hiring a professional bike-riding counselor toschool her daughter in the ways of training wheels and banana seats. Oh, the horror, right? What’s next — a professional Tooth Fairy and an after-school nurse to kiss boo-boos?


The future of parenting is outsourcing!


Nick Pavlakis from Vancouver, B.C.-based Pedalheads says the bicycle instruction business is booming because parents don’t have time and they lack skills. “A lot of parents come to us and they’ve tried on their own and found it to be quite a struggle.”


In Eckler’s case, squeamishness drove her to seek help.


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