Less Two Wheels . Two Wheels Balance
It happened yesterday. Jackson asked to ride another kid’s bike at “The Choo Choo Train Park.”
And sure enough, with a little boost he continued on his merry two-wheeled path. It wasn’t a trek across the Pyrenees but it was the start of what likely will be a lifelong love affair of the bipedal variety.
On the way home, skimming the ground on our “Blades,” he asked the inevitable question, “Daddy, will you take the training wheels off my blue bike?”
Of course.
And so today marked the first official day of moving forward without training wheels. And what a first day it proved to be. With the grace of an arcing angel’s wing, Jackson swooped to the left and to the right, extending gentle circles around and through the park at The Hayt School in Edgewater.
Training wheels are an awesome metaphor. We need them to lend stability on the front end. For kids training wheels are critical, letting them gain their balance, accrue confidence and get to the point where the training wheels can come off. Because at the end of the day the point of training wheels is to not have training wheels.
But the idea of training wheels much beyond single digit years is a bit of troublesome. This is especially true when it comes to finding somebody to help you find your new Chicago home or somebody to market the sale of your Chicago home.
A “training wheel” moment occurred last weekend when I showed one of my East Village homes to a couple who saw the home without their agent. They had a lot of questions that I answered. Toward the end of the showing they plopped down on a sofa in the lower level family room, admitted their agent was new and inexperienced and asked if it would be appropriate to have more than one real estate agent.
No, I said, one is really how many you should have. Just take care to choose the best one.
And make sure their training wheels are off.
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