Personal Narrative: Teaching My Little Brother To Ride A Bike

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If you have never taught a little one to ride a bike, you had better be prepared for a major battle. Teaching my little brother to ride a bike was an adventure that will be burned in my memories forever. The day I taught this little dude the challenges of bike riding was most incredible endeavor.
It was a hot August day when mom made the great decision that I should be the one to step up to the plate and teach my bratty little brother the ropes about riding a bike. boy, was that a disaster.
It was a warm Saturday morning and my little brother just woke up and ran in the kitchen telling my dad he wanted to learn to ride a bike, but my dad was fixing to leave for work and told my little brother to go ask my mom if she would. He went up to my mom and asked her if she could teach him how to ride his bike, and she said she
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He got on the bike and I held it up were it wouldn’t fall over. He was scared the he was gonna fall off so I told him I would hold him up and was his bike around with him on it so he could get use to it. I walked the bike with him on it around in a couple of circles till he got the hang of it. Then I asked him if he was ready to go down the hill, and he said he was as long as I held the bike up for him I told him I would even though I knew I wouldn’t be able to.
When we started down the hill I held on to the back of the seat on the bike it started off going slow the the bike started to pick up speed and I started to lose my grip of the seat then the bike hit a bump in the road and I lost my grip I started running after the bike, but then my brother lost his balance and the bike fell to the concrete road with and thud and my brother fell off just in time to land on his feet. My little brother started to cry because the bike tipping over scared him a little bit I him it would be okay that he would just have to keep trying till he got the hang of

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