{"id":3516,"date":"2007-07-14T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/14\/rachels-big-kid-blogging-bike-wreck-101\/"},"modified":"2007-07-14T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T22:15:06","slug":"rachels-big-kid-blogging-bike-wreck-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3516","title":{"rendered":"Rachel's Big Kid Blogging- Bike Wreck 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

My 7 year-old stepson Branden is here for part of his summer vacation, and we decided to take this time to teach him how to ride his bike without the training wheels. We took him out to the park in front of our building and put him on the bike in an area with a downward slope and after about 25 tries he finally got it. This was last Sunday, and by Wednesday he was able to ride around the perimeter of the park in a full circle.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly he didn’t crash until Wednesday. It was ironic because his Daddy was saying how he wished that Branden had a wreck so he would watch where he’s going, and so he could “get it over with.” His Dad and I were talking, and agreeing that bicycle wrecks are a rite of <\/a>passage, and literally 3 minutes later he took a hard fall on the pavement. He stayed on the ground and Daddy rushed over to help him up. He scratched his knee and his finger, but not too bad. Well in our view it wasn’t bad, but as soon as he realized his cut was bleeding and we were giving him attention, he started bawling and limping. We took him inside, and took a picture of his first bicycle injury. He was crying even harder at that point because he thought I was going to pour alcohol on the cut. I couldn’t convince him that I was going to put neosporin on it and it wouldn’t burn.<\/p>\n

Even though he fell, he was happy about two things. He got to wear bandages, and he got to show off his cut to other kids.<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of the scraped knee, it’s hard not to feel sorry for him with that sad face.<\/p>\n

Picture of Braden\u2019s scraped knee and sad face. <\/a><\/p>\n

Then, we have a close-up because he wanted everybody to see the blood, and the cut on his finger.<\/p>\n

Close-up of Branden\u2019s bloody knee and finger.<\/a><\/p>\n

Branden, Daddy, and I are happy to report that his cut is healing, and he wasn’t the least bit scared about getting back on the bike a few days later.<\/p>\n

Now we’re working on tying shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My 7 year-old stepson Branden is here for part of his summer vacation, and we decided to take this time to teach him how to ride his bike without the training wheels. We took him out to the park in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-kid-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}