I understand your frustration at your W re your son learning to ride his bike. However, my son didn't learn until he was 10 either - even tho all my girls were off stabilisers and riding bikes well before they were 4 yrs old. That was really embarrassing for my son, that his baby sister could do it before he could esp., as he is great at sport. When he did decide he wanted to put the effort in to learn I physically was not strong enough to hold him on the bike and set him off like I had my girls and he and I got very upset with one another - we didn't have the patience to both deal with it. In the end I walked away from it and he learnt by himself and happened to tell me later on, on the day he managed it.
I guess what I am trying to say is that altho' I acn be patient and help him with a lot of things, with this one thing I couldn't, and we just rubbed each other up the wrong way. His embarrassment/ frustration combined with my lack of physical strength and frustration at his inability to master what I saw as something he should easily have been able to accomplish, was just a bad mix. At the end of the day he managed it and we just moved on.
Maybe, your W had tried on earlier occasions and realised they couldn't help one another with this.
You got bigger fish to fry than this one so I'd just let go.
I'm glad he managed it!!!
Saffie
Saffie me 46 H 46 M in 1986 D20,D18,S16,D13 H's A 01/05 to 07/06 H recommitted to M 07/06 renewed vows 09/06 Going from strength to strength
