My favourite was how to make a drumkit from pots and pans 😎
Ha! That's a first class wind up there!
I'm in the "who gives a cr@p as long as kids are riding bikes" camp.
Nothing greater in life than seeing youngsters on bikes; the sooner the better in every case.
A friend's parents, whist said friend was at work as was wife, looking after the young kid, decided, without asking, to teach him to ride his bike.
Personally, I'd be quite annoyed. But for me, it was something that I'd planned out due to (I suspect advice on here tbh) getting a balance bike and then a lightweight bike for my sprog to learn on.
Also as a side note, I've gone and found the video I took of the occasion, which has put a massive smile on my face.
When he was still on stabilisers we took junior camping with older cousins who had bigger proper bikes. I'd started bending the stabilisers up but thought he still needed them. Then I saw a kid on a big bike racing around and realised it was junior who'd borrowed it. No lessons needed.
When we got the balance bike it had a quick 5 minutes acknowledgement of what it does after which it was left out and available and ignored until they went up the common with grandad to kite fly, kick a ball and whatever else got chucked in the van. Only wanted the bike out up the common and balance biked everywhere for the next year.
Few false starts with a pedal bike. Playing around a friends house they just got on a bike with pedals because their friend was riding it and declared that the pedals could go on their bike at home.
I know someone that thought they did a fantastic job of their child progressing from balance to pedal bike in an hour just to find that their child had been riding a pedal bike from the shed of wheeled stuff at pre-school for a couple of months.
Isn't that the deal with grandparent daycare anyway. They just do all the cool stuff then hand them back to the parents for the mundane stuff.
Yup. Same with being an uncle only you get to teach them stuff to annoy the parents. My favourite was how to make a drumkit from pots and pans 😎
No bad.
I can top it though... I made my nephews cigar box guitars... I didn't teach them...
Well, it seems we all pretty much approve and dont really know what the outrage post is all about.
Are the majority of you grand parents ??
We're all grandchildren?
Are the majority of you grand parents
Yep, I'm a bloody excellent parent. Thanks for asking.
I don't even remember who taught me to ride a bike, wasn't my father, never met the bloke. Wasn't my mum she can't ride a bike.....no idea.
Anyway once I read the op's post 8 times to determine what that gibberish meant, I can see why he may be disappointed but it should mostly be aimed at himself for not just doing it. Grandparents were just being helpful grandparents looking after kids and doing stuff.
Boo bloody hoo. Bunch of cry babies. If the parents didn’t spend so much time galevanting around maybe they could have done it.
Well done to the grand parents.
I'd have loved it if my grandparents etc took me biking! Tended to just be a lego interruption for a tedious walk to do some food shopping and a slap across the back of the legs for whining!
My Dad wouldn't take my stabilisers off my bike, must have been pretty late as there were much younger kids in the street that were flying around on two wheels. I ended up borrowing a friends bike off their front lawn to prove I could ride (thankfully it turned out I could otherwise I'd have been 10 before the next chance) and only then did he go and get the dumbbell spanner (remember those...turns out they are still a thing!)
At the end of the day the kid doesn't give a sht who taught him to ride. Get over it, look forward to the kids next new bike day and don't let it tarnish the relationship. If its free child care, then maybe they should just plonk the kid in front of the telly all afternoon, rather than spend some time doing healthy outdoor stuff. If they genuinely are behaving like bell ends and knew it would rile you, don't give them the satisfaction of seeing you get all stressed about it cos then they've got one over on you.
PS Not a parent!
Two observations.
Is the person directly upset an inlaw to the grandparents. Because it has that ring of childishness.
Are they prepared for the childs first day at school? Have they considered homeschooling... It might save alot of anguish.
Is your business as bad as you come across on forums , first you were a dick when your car broke now your throwing out toys about being robbed by your parents / in laws
Steady on there @brotato it’s a lovely sunny bank holiday with a nice gentle breeze.
Let’s not spoil it!
