On your bike! Why Britain needs to do more to get children cycling

Learning to ride is a wonderful milestone for children and promotes good health in later life, but the UK is lagging behind

Stored away on my phone is a brief video showing the day, a few years ago, when my son first learned to ride a pedal bike – more precisely, the moment he gained sufficient confidence for me to stop hovering and record the historic event for posterity.

Looking back at the footage, what struck me was the meandering route he plotted. But this wasn’t beginner’s wobbling – it was a deliberate decision to cycle through as many puddles as possible, thus creating the biggest possible splashes.

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from Children | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2xaP0rv