I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it’s pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that’d be rather time consuming.

Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can’t ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.

edit: the high number of replies mentioning “swimming” made me realize that I had that filed as a basic skill pretty much everybody has - probably due to swimming lessons being a mandatory part of school education here.

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    !!< In between the ! And !
    On sync for lemmy and probably other apps, there are buttons to do the markdown automatically haha. By the way, a new line is made by giving the previous line two empty spaces.[ ][ ]
    New line. I just learned that one, and it’s better than Shift+Enter new lines.

    These new lines

    Waste so much space.