Learning Situation

Learning Situation

Learning Situation: How to ride a bike

I must have been seven or eight years old when I rode my first bike, and the day I learned to ride my bike is very memorable to me. It was a brilliant warm after noon and the flawless summer day; school holiday time, children playing, sun shining, birds chirping. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the afternoon. The children in my district were running round playing fun games. Iwas in my back yard with my two sisters and my little brother. We were playing tag when my dad pulled into the driveway in his pickup truck with a bike in the back. Ican apparently recall it. My dad must have picked it up at a garage sale. It was an old, rusty bike with some yellow and white paint on it that was covered with some of those really cute metallic glittery stickers to cover the paint that was coming off. Ididn't care what the bike looked like. I was more excited to do something with my dad. Learning to ride my bike would mean a bond with my dad and a challenge for myself. If I learned, I knew it would make him proud.

        The feeling of learning to do something for the first time was a bit frightening; especially having my dad as my riding instructor. Something good must have happened that day that I was not aware of, because my dad was in a good mood. Usually my father was very impatient and demanding so it was surprising to have him want to teach me to ride my bike for the first time. Ididn't care to gaze for reasons. My dad jumped out of his truck and reached to get the bike that was sitting on the back. We saw him lift it by the bars and head toward us, we stopped playing; we stood quietly waiting for him to approach us.

        "Who is that two wheeler for?"we asked, keen to know.

        "It's for Daisy. This is her turn to learn," he said to us; setting the bike on the grass. As he told us that, my siblings returned to their tag game. My sisters had learned to ride a bike the previous summer, although my dad introduced the bicycle to them before they learned to ride a bike. My brother was still too young to learn, so I was the only ...