natural consequences

A story I thought about after we talked about allowing natual consequences to be the teacher is when I was in 1st grade I think I went for a bike ride with my mom and she had been trying to talk me into taking my training wheels off but I am not the person to really try new things. I was scared so she just let me leave them on and we were riding around my home town and we go past this family and the little girl yells, “mom look at that big girl with training wheels!” I have always been tall for my age so I was only like 6-7 years old but I made my mom hurry home and I took my training wheels off right when I got home and learned to ride with out them. So my mom didn’t force me to take them off she let me decide when. And I look back now and think that story is funny and a great lesson too that kids don’t have to be told to do things they can learn on their own.