AMEX

• Provides physical activity which directly combats obesity
  (for children who can pedal)
• Strengthens core muscles for stability
• Improves balance and exercises reciprocal leg movements
• Improves motor planning and gross motor skills
• Provides visual and tactile stimulation
• May improve full body sensory awareness
• Helps improve attention and assists children in focusing on cognitive tasks presented after by providing riders with proprioceptive input
• Encourages teamwork and verbal communication
• Provides leisure, family activity, outdoor activity and community social skills

Features:

• Child rider sits in front and has a sense of control by using their own handle bars that are attached to the adult handlebars which steer

• Adult has significant leverage over the handlebars so the child does not have the ability to push the steering in any direction without the cooperation of the parent rider

• Adult is close enough to speak words of encouragement or to practice verbal lessons into the child's ear rather than shouting in the wind at a child riding behind

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