OMG just seen this advertised! There are so many reasons why this is wrong...

[IsawBUMPERkissingsantaclaus]

This.

So wrong. Just get your child a real bike FFS!

I agree with tortoiseSHELL. This is pretending to be something it is not.

I don't think there is anything wrong with a bit of slumping in front of the TV. Kids need to relax and switch off like we do, but that's not what this is supposed to do. And at least if they are in front of the TV you can say "right you've had xxx time doing nothing let's something active" but with something like this bike you can kid yourself they are doing something active and neglect the going out and getting fresh air part/

I should add I am hardline on screens in our house - no playstation/wii/games systems, only 1 tv, rationed to 1/2 to 1 hour a day, at the end of the day.

Am now able to say children NOT slumped in front of the tv - ds1 and his best friend are building a brio track upstairs, dd is practising her handwriting (her choice), ds2 is building with duplo. [preens]

countto10 yes! I hate that too!

I do agree about limiting "screen time" and the benefits of fresh air, I was just trying to point out that there can be mitigating circumstances...

Exactly Bumper. I reckon this will INCREASE the incidence of childhood obesity, as the fresh air/activity the child might have got will not now happen, and some parents may let them eat more junk because they've 'done some exercise'.

My rule of thumb when getting toys etc for the children is 'does it encourage/stimulate imagination, or does it inhibit it?'. And this would definitely inhibit it I think. In fact any screen does imo!!! Like I said, I'm a bit hard line on it!

I'm even harder line re screens, no ps or any of that stuff here

Cam we don't have any ps or anything - only tv, and they are very occasionally allowed to use dh's computer.

Same

where in the name of god would you put it?

the assumption here has been that it would be useful if you lived in a flat, but flats are usually small, so would a flat have space for that?

and it plugs into the tv so a fun objet for the sitting room

Well I wish it was big enough for my autistic 7 yo. I've spent hours trying to get him to understand what his bike is for but he just doesn't 'get it'. We bought him a fab go-kart for Christmas last year which he still can't manage (so we do try!). He does adore computers though so something like this could give him some incentive to learn to pedal. Then he could play with all the toys that are getting ruined in the garden!

OMG this is so funny I laughed my head off when I did the link to this. It is just so so wrong. Still sniggering now. Can t wait to show DH. Will wait up specially.

Would be good for my autistic ds. He has a bike. He likes to sit on it. He has no understanding that you are meant to ride it. If we take him out he peddles a short way then jumps off. This might teach him the point of bikes.

Oh PMSL I've just read pixels post (hadn't seen it when I typed that first sentence). We need to persuade someone to make a SN version pixel.