It is no surprise that my daughters like to skate considering that David was an avid skater. The girls used to put on David’s skates and play in his office. About two years ago, he eventually bought them their first pair of roller skates. He would have loved to teach them how to skate. My older one is very keen to learn now, on the weekends, she wakes up earlier than her Sister on the weekends so that I can “try” to teach her without interruption.

Of course my teaching skills are completely questionable considering that I do not think I can skate confidently. Years of not skating has made me apprehensive about skating again. How can I teach something I no longer think I can do? Skating will always be so dear to my heart since that is how I met David as I wrote in this blogpost. Hopefully, her interest in skating will motivate me to get back on the roller skates. It will be nice to be able to skate with my daughters.

It turns out that I have told my daughter too many times that I met her Dad at a roller skating rink, the last time she had her skates on, I said did you know that I met your Dad at the roller staking rink, she gave me a cynical look as she said “again, you have told me this like a thousand times”.

My older daughter is also keen on biking without her training wheels on. David got her a bicycle without training wheels over two years ago. I have a feeling I will be spending a good bit of time teaching both of them what should have been David’s duty – how to skate and for my older daughter how to bike without training wheels.

David was so patient and also technical in his teaching approach, he also taught them to do things with little or no inhibition. For me, my first aim in teaching is to protect them from getting hurt saying things like “don’t do that you will fall”, this probably interferes with teaching. I am also quite a visual person and try to explain things simply the way I see it without accounting for the laws of physics. I hope my approach will work.

Below is a pictures of David teaching our younger daughter to bike.