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Would you expect a just turned 9-year-old to be able to ?

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AFewScrewsLucy · 29/06/2023 16:23

Cycle 2 miles on a flat path, Have a fun swim for 45 minutes and cycle 2 miles home after having their lunch after the swimming?

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MrsMarzetti · 29/06/2023 20:01

Anotherdayanotherdollar · 29/06/2023 18:32

Why would you have to ask why they are so unfit? They might not be unfit at all. They might just not have learned to cycle, or swim. 🙄 Or they may not be able to for many, many other reasons that aren't related to their fitness levels

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Maybe i was just assuming that the child could swim and ride a bike, after all i am sure the OP wouldn't plan such an activity if the child couldn't do either of these things. As for the many many other reasons that aren't related to their fitness levels i really haven't a clue.

Tiddlypomtiddlypom · 29/06/2023 22:06

I think it sounds great, OP. And I’m sure he’d be up for it if he’s usually active. And like another poster said, he’ll definitely do his best for his auntie and probably won’t moan!

This thread has brought out all sorts of PITA posters spoiling for a fight over all sorts of imagined slights 🙄

Tiddlypomtiddlypom · 29/06/2023 22:08

whataboutme77 · 29/06/2023 16:37

This all depends on the child surely?
I'd hazard a guess that you're having a good old judge at a child who can't
My child has dyspraxia and isn't confident on a bike yet so he'd enjoy the swimming but would find the cycling hard work.
A child used to cycling would enjoy this activity though.

Posts like this are so tedious.

whataboutme77 · 30/06/2023 17:52

Tiddlypomtiddlypom · 29/06/2023 22:06

I think it sounds great, OP. And I’m sure he’d be up for it if he’s usually active. And like another poster said, he’ll definitely do his best for his auntie and probably won’t moan!

This thread has brought out all sorts of PITA posters spoiling for a fight over all sorts of imagined slights 🙄

😆😆😆😆
And yet quoting somebody post and saying "this post is tedious" isn't "spoiling for a fight?

How dare people have an opinion different to yours eh?

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