To just sell DC's balance bike?

[Meowstro]

My DC is nearly 3, we're getting fed up with DC wanting to take the balance bike out, sitting on it for one minute and finding it hard to do then leaving is trailing it around the whole park. The scooter can be just as bad but nowhere near an issue as the balance bike. I want to bloody give up and just buy a normal bike with stablisers. No amount of positive reinforcement or enthusiasm is helping.

DH thinks I'm giving up too easily and we're not putting enough effort in to help but there's no interest in it apart from if DC sees another child riding their bike. However, I know she can ride the bikes they have at her daycare.

Surely I'm not awful for suggesting that there's nothing wrong with getting a normal bike?!

Some kids are just annoying in terms of wanting you to carry the thing whether it be a scooter, bike etc. My 4 year old is very physically able but my husband still ends up carrying her bike or scooter.

For what it’s worth, my friends that have had children with balance bikes have transitioned seamlessly to normal bikes without stabilisers. We didn’t have a balance bike because my daughter was all about the aesthetics rather than function and still is.