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My name is Lyle Nisenholz, I am thirty one years old and live in San Mateo. I am a Early Childhood teacher and an aspiring professional illustrator. My favorite hobby is bicycling, I love to get up early in the morning ad head up towards the great natural beauty so close to my home. I also commute and do almost all my traveling by bicycle. Since this has been my day to day way of traveling ,rain or shine for over four years my appreciation of movement, acceleration and the natural elements (especially wind) are different from the non-bicycle traveler. Sometimes when I am riding in the car with my wife I find my hands gripping the sides of the car seat when we are on the freeway this is not because my wife is a bad driver but because sixty five miles per hour seems really fast to me. I just don't get in a car enough to feel safe about the speed.
As a baby we are exposed to all sorts of experiences for the first time, experience like acceleration, speed, gravity and movement. In fact the growing child's ability to move about is intrinsically linked to it's ability to learn. We know that movement is very important to children and that they are experiencing all sorts of things for the first time every day of their lives. So what would we expect a first car experience would be for the infants? My guess would be to take my experience on the freeway and amplify it five or six times. Add to that fact that the infant's and small child's movement is restricted by a special seat or harness and you can begin to see how overwhelming this might seem.
My warning is this: before you take an unnecessary trip with your infant or toddler age child, think about how this might effect them. Remember the children do not see the world the way adults do and they are appreciating things differently, even a bike ride in the woods.
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