how do I pick the right size bicycle for my child (45 inches, 4 years old, needs training wheels)?

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mr190762

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Take him to your local bike shop and get them to help you pick out a bike. They are interested in getting him a bike that will fit him and are experienced in the industry. Don't buy from WalMart, or Academy, or department stores, where the sales help is usually clueless. The average "department store" bike gets less than 100 miles on it before it hits the dumpster - and for good reason - they aren't fun to ride because the quality is so poor. Even for a kids' bike that you expect him to outgrow in a couple of years can be handed down to a sibling or friend. You'll pay a little more, but the piece of mind knowing that his bike will hold up to the crashes, getting dumped in the yard, jumping curbs is worth it.

You can get good kids' bikes in some of the main brands - Giant, Trek, Specialized, etc. They will be good quality. (Note, if you are as old as I am, Schwinn was the thing to get when you were a kid - but they are no longer. The name was bought out by a very low end, cheap company (Pacific Mongoose) and the quality has gone way downhill.)

And as everyone says: get a helmet & a pump. The tires should be aired at least once a week (they will lose ~10% of their pressure *each* night).

How cool is your kid's school? What freebies do they get?

Michelle

I am always amazed at the free stuff my daughter brings home from school. And I often wonder if this is a small town thing (not many kids, so it doesn't cost local businesses much to sponsor things) or if the bigger cities do the same or more.

Yesterday they had a bicycle safety course for the first graders. The actually gave my daughter a free helmet! It doesn't look cheap either. The design is cool (I wouldn't mind wearing it) and the way it is built looks better than the cheapos I was looking at at walmart.

What kind of stuff does your kid bring home from school? And is it public or private? My daughter goes to public school.
Grace - My kid's teacher actually pays the kids pennies for being good at school every day. You get 3 pennies if you stay out of trouble. You get more if you do something really good. At the end of the six weeks, they get to buy stuff like you are talking about and little toys. I think that's pretty cool too :)
Katie ... One of the schools I went to separated us into teams like that too. Stinks, doesn't it?
KitKat - I like the sound of what your school does. My daughter loves books! They have sent home 2 or 3 this year. But every kid gets the same one, sponsored by the local bank, grocery store, and phone company. Still pretty neat. I never knew kids came with so many cool accessories!
Mom to 4 girls : Wow! Your kids' schools have more people than my whole town! Our city has barely passed the 2,000 people mark. ... And many of them are retired!

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We are in a very small town as well. We don't get anything near as nice as a bike helmet. However, the kids have brought home free footballs (not the small nerf kind), they get backpacks at the beginning of the year, t-shirts, ice cream from the local DQ, and they have a book program to choose one book from the library every month to keep.

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