After weeks of practise, Leah finally managed to ride her bike independently. She still has to learn to ride on different types of surfaces but she has tried so hard to ride her bike. I took her on bike rides regularly using her stabilisers but then I noticed she had a good balance. The stabilisers came off and I started holding her and encouraging her to just pedal but we did not seem to be making any progress. I then decided to not ask Leah to pedal but to just push herself along and try to keep the bike balanced. When I noticed her doing this, I then started saying ‘balance first and then pedal’. It was soon changed to ‘balance, balance, pedal!’ It was such a good feeling to see her ride independently!