Learning Balance

Balance bikes helps children to learn balance, leading to 2-wheeled cycling skill and helps them to be more aware of their actions and consequences of those actions. It will also give them confidence in their abilities which will develop in other areas of their lives. Children that develop balance at an early age also develop confidence. Confidence allows children to learn faster.

Research and plain old common sense explains the importance of children doing regular gentle exercise. Childrens heart rates need to be raised to 140bpm at least once a day in order to improve both physical and psychological health. Balance Bikes are a fun and effective way of achieving this with your child. Children will enjoy taking their balance bike out for a ride and the exercise they are getting from it will benefit them in many ways. Regular exercise in early life increases the likelihood that they will continue exercising when they become adults. Attitudes towards physical activity are established at an early age; parents therefore have a prime responsibility to encourage their children to engage in active play.  With a balanced and active lifestyle, children can develop a repertoire of motor skills, achieve success at their own levels, and feel confident in trying out new activities.

The best way to insure children can achieve high-level academic performance with less effort is to have them train their motor skills starting in infancy and continuing in childhood. Dr. Jean Piaget, a Swiss child psychologist and biologist, recognized that for children, sensory-motor intelligence represents the foundation for and integration of a child's later ability to abstract, generalize, analyze, and synthesize natural and social phenomenon. In other words, a child's ability to understand the world around him and communicate with others is based on early, adequate sensory and motor-skill development and integration, as well as a stable emotional development.

In early age we begin to learn to develop a sense of verticality, going through stages like turning, sitting, crawling, standing and walking. The final result should be well coordinated walking, and a balanced and vertical posture with smooth, fluid motions. A well controlled vertical posture and well-coordinated movement should be stable and of very good quality by the age of six to seven at the latest, when exams and tests at school begin. An optimally coordinated movement and vertical posture allow us to listen, communicate, act and interact independently. They are known and recognized today as the basis for developing age-appropriate speech, language and behavior. This level of performance (development) represents the foundation for later movement skills, such as drawing or writing when we are in school, and as adults when performing complex and high-precision motor activities like surgeons, airplane pilots, violinists, figure skaters, etc., must do.

A well-trained and developed sense of balance and coordinated movement are also fundamental and very important skills in developing attention, in concentrating, remaining focused for a long time when learning, communicating, or at work.