🚲 | The Rider Beside Him | A BMX Bedtime Story About Kindness and Helping a Friend

A year ago, Kai was the kid who couldn't do it. That turns out to be the most useful thing about him.

Kai clears the Big Jump now. Both wheels, every time, without his stomach doing anything at all. So when a new rider named Jeremiah shows up at the Jungle Pump Track with his little sister Noah trailing behind him, and stalls at the top of the hill three times in a row, Kai knows exactly what he's looking at. He used to be that.

So he tells Jeremiah it's easy. He tells him to go faster. He rides the jump one more time to show him how.

Then Jeremiah walks his bike down the hill and sits in the dirt, and Kai finally understands that he has made everything worse.

A calm bedtime story about why advice from someone who never struggled lands like an accusation, and what actually helps instead.

🚲 Being told something is easy doesn't help when it isn't easy for you 🤝 The hard thing you went through is what lets you help someone else 🌴 Sometimes the scary part isn't the jump, it's being up there alone 🍕 A jungle pump track, a new friend, and a pizza place with a pirate flag over the door 🌙 Ends soft and slow, for a kid who needs to wind down

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Great for: bedtime stories for kids, BMX and bike stories, stories about kindness and helping others, making a new friend, brothers and sisters, ages 4–12, sleep stories for kids, calm bedtime podcast