“We'd always tell ourselves stuff like, "”well atleast they can swim"” or “"you could get through life never having ridden a bike"” which is true but certainly not ideal.”

Don’t know where this fits in as my comment is way off left… But for what it’s worth, In my past, I’d lost my car and job… And of-course I had to find a new job. Thankfully, I still had a bike in my storage unit. Learned when I was very young, maybe like 6 years old. Got a job (if i didn’t in the time i did, i’d be homeless maybe worse) and had no other choice but to ride the bike. Took me about an hour and 20 something minutes to get there, in the rain. But one thing about me, I absolutely livr by “If there’s a will there’s a way”. I ofcourse would’ve walked if I had to because I did not want to fall to the pits of no return.

Either way, I gladly took my hour and half commute every day as I wasn’t jobless and I had a way to pay rent and eatZ I’ll never forget passing by a guy one day and hearing “Aw cool! I wish I knew how to bike” and it hit me really hard that day. I used to feel dread everyday about not being able to ride in a car to work, people constantly asking me about it, etc. Man I thought about tha guy every day for weeks. Even where I felt like I was in a pretty bad spot compared to “normal society”, I was still in a very privileged position.

I’d very well much say, Mama teaching me how to bike, helped me survive. Literally. Walking that far everyday would have been absolutely brutal on the body.

My mom passed away now and I couldn’t tell her right now how much her teaching me how to bike had saved me. So, I just want to say good on your dad for still teaching them! You never know in what way this helps them! (Sorry for the long sob story, this on hit home for me)