For Emma's birthday back in March, we gave her a tricycle with pedals. She's been practicing riding it almost every day since, but for the longest time, she didn't have the strength to push the pedals properly. She's still had fun with it but often just used her feet to propel herself along the ground and sometimes got frustrated that she could see what needed to happen but couldn't make her legs do it.
Today, she was finally ready to ride her bike all the way to the park and back, using the pedals.
One day in the future, when she is struggling with something and wanting to give up, we will remind her of the time it took her almost four months of turning up every day to master her first trike. Depending on how old she is, she'll either put her head down and keep practicing, or, more likely, roll her eyes at us in embarrassment at being reminded that she was once a toddler. Either way, we're proud of her now and I'm pretty sure we'll be proud of her then, too.
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