Comment by jandrese

This is a good way to do it, but can backfire. When my kids were very small they had "coaster" bikes, which are just bikes without pedals. They enjoyed these immensely, but they quickly outgrew the coaster and it was time to move on to a pedal bike and they hated the pedals. To be fair this was partially my fault since we bought regular fixed gear with coaster brakes style kids bikes, which feature annoyingly short crank arms and low gearing which makes it very difficult to get the bike up to high speed. The new "big kid" bikes they got were slower than the old leg powered coaster bikes and harder to use on hills. They resented pedal bikes for a long time.