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Today we discuss the benefits of cycling (Radio Scot)
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Posted 13 years ago #
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Just about to talk about it - 'cycling good for youngsters, socially too'.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"dangers good for children too"
Posted 13 years ago # -
This was the guy on the radio -
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Alan McLean, one of Scotland’s foremost Educational Psychologists and supporter of Bikeability provides his views on the benefits of children cycling:
Cycling:
Helps kids to form intense relationships, close group identity and peer affirmation.
Creates Fun with friends, camaraderie, side by side bonding, we get to know people easily when out cycling.
Is inclusive – an activity for everyone, at all skill levels, both competitive and non competitive. It suits different temperaments with high excitement for the sensation seekers through to calm cycling for the cautious type.
Is fun for all the family.
Motivates pro social behaviour, social road skills, reciprocity with others and the need for rules and connects kids with the adult world of transport.
Helps cope with the ups and downs of life the highs and lows, the struggles, the freewheeling and the highs of achievement.
Aids skills acquisition, balance and control, a meta cognitive skill like learning to drive.
Lends itself to speedy progress, one minute you can’t and the next minute you can- that adrenalin moment when people get the bug.
Helps young people to be aware of their growing abilities, recognise their growing skill and feel responsible for and in control of their progress.
Encourages a mastery self-improvement attitude and a growth mindset where kids define success in relation to own progress and learn from their mistakes.
Provides the platform for instant and objective feedback, clear when goals have been achieved, triggers lots of genuine praise.
Creates a good opportunity for children to deal with making a fool of themselves in front of peers including dealing with falling off and getting back on again, building perseverance skills.
Aids physical fitness, purposeful and satisfying exertion which releases endorphins, high energy and gets the heart rate up.
Allows children to be in control and less reliant on adults with opportunities for decision making.
Encourages a capacity for adventure and risk taking.
Creates the exhilaration of travelling under your own steam.
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Posted 13 years ago # -
All positives - that's great. So true too if only those car dependent people can be convinced!!
Posted 13 years ago #
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