Neglected Child?

[Miriel]

Parents dumped me in the pool when I was like 6 years old and had me thrash about in order to save my own life. That was not a fun experience.

Bike, I vaguely recall my dad teaching me how to ride without training wheels, but I can't remember at what age.

Reading... parents taught me how to read Korean. Teachers at school taught me how to read English. I used to be really really crappy at reading English. Stumbled over words all the time and I hated popcorn reading time in class. And then one summer I was just like, f-that! And I read a crapton of books on my own. Now I read like a book a week and my vocabulary is better than anyone I know. How do you like me now, suckas???

[scrumpleberry]

Who taught you how to swim, and at what age?
My mother, I guess. I'm not sure what age.

Who taught you how to ride a bike, and at what age?
Ahahaha, I still can't. I can pretty much balance very very slowly for about 5 metres after 10 minutes of painstaking effort, then I just sort of teeter over pathetically. I sort of "learned" as far as I got when I was about 8 or so, I guess. Again, it was my mother. Needless to say, I try to avoid situations where I have to ride bikes. It's embarrassing not to know how at my age.

Who taught you how to read, and at what age?
Myself, from a very early age. I'm talking 2/3 here, as soon as I could understand what reading was I wanted to do it. I was an absolute reading fanatic, and refused point blank to let my mother help me learn, to the point of throwing tantrums where I was practically frothing at the mouth. I'm still a little like that now, actually - I don't like to be taught entirely new things because I feel embarrased that someone is seeing me do something that I'm not yet much good at. I taught myself to write as well. With the help of teaching books and videos, of course.

[Namelessfengir]

swim: the Y age 6 then i forgot til age 14
bike: dad about same time
read: i can conceive of ever not reading.... it kinda scares me

[Shiny]

Who taught you how to swim, and at what age?

Dad. And I was five or six, but I think everyone instinctively knows how to swim. It's just the matter of not panicking.

Who taught you how to ride a bike, and at what age?

Dad again. And I was 10. I rode a tricycle for the longest time until I got too big for it and was forced to learn how to ride a bicycle.

Who taught you how to read, and at what age?

A teacher who was really sweet and gave me a donut once. I was 7 when I finally learned how to officially read, but six when I started reading Dr. Seuss books.

[Cz]

Swimming: My parents took my to pools when I was very young, so I was used to water, but I preferred to float around in a rubber ring or paddle in the shallow parts of the pool rather than learn to swim properly. My school gave us swimming lessons from about age seven onwards, and I think that's the first time I was taught.

Bike: I wasn't very interested in learning to ride a bike, but when I got to age eight or so my parents decided it was somethng I ought to do and taught me together. I had to learn on a girl's bike, though, because all of my stuff was handed down from my sister.

Read: I don't remember learning to read at all. The earliest memory I have of reading a book is at age five, but I could probably read long before that. My parents are both teachers, so they encouraged me very early on. At a guess, I'd say I learned at about age 3.

[Tavrobel]

Swimming: my sister, at four years.
Riding a bike: my cousins, at seven years.
Reading: my sister, at three years.

[Roto13]

Who taught you how to swim, and at what age?

My swimming instructor. I don't remember when.

Who taught you how to ride a bike, and at what age?

Me. Still don't remember when.

Who taught you how to read, and at what age?

My mom, by reading to me every night before bed in early life. :D

[Renmiri]

Who taught you how to swim, and at what age?
I taught my dad how to swim!!! Both he and my mom were terrified of water but they put me and sis on good classes from early age so we are excellent swimmers. My mom can only dog paddle but my dad can swim nowadays

Who taught you how to ride a bike, and at what age?
My dad taught me when I was 5-6ish~

Who taught you how to read, and at what age?
according to my parents I was reading at 4, with no formal teaching except them with flashcards. All I know is that by 6 I had read whole chapter books

[Jess]

Swimming: Both of my parents taught me to swim at an early age. I think I was probably 4 years old. Going swimming used to be one of my favourite things when I was little.

Bike: My dad taught me how to ride a bike when I was 5. The first time he took my stabalisers off my bike I fell off and was crying and he took a picture. Hahahaha.

Reading: Both of my parents, brother and teachers. I started to learn to read at home with my parents and brother when I was like 4/5, but then I improved a lot when I started school.

[Araciel]

Ride bike: I didn't learn till I was 12, I got on a bike and rode down the front lawn, then I could do it.

Swim: I didn't 'swim' until I was about 9 I think, fell in the pool by school and needed to swim out.

Read: School/Sesame Street. From the age of five.

[Freya]

Mom, 5/6 years old.
Dad, 4/5 years old.
Mom, 2 years old.

[Breine]

Who taught you how to swim, and at what age?
Some random swimming teacher taught me how to do it properly - Up until that point I was just doing the doggie paddle. I was probably 7 or something.

Who taught you how to ride a bike, and at what age?
My dad did and I think I was 5.

Who taught you how to read, and at what age?
I don't remember

[smittenkitten]

Who taught you how to swim, and at what age?
My Dad and Mum taught me how to swim, I can't remember what age i was but I think I was about six years old.

Who taught you how to ride a bike, and at what age?
My Dad bought me my first bike when I was six. I loved it! It was a purple bike with a white basket, he taught me that day.

Who taught you how to read, and at what age?
My teacher mainly when I about sxi or seven years old when I could write properly.

[Jessweeee♪]

Now that I've been growing old and getting significantly closer to my inevitable death, I have been thinking about my childhood a bit, and I realized my parents never taught me how to ride a bike, swim or read. Learned all that from friends and teachers, and at a pretty late age compared to the other kids too. So I'm wondering this:

Who taught you how to swim, and at what age?
Who taught you how to ride a bike, and at what age?
Who taught you how to read, and at what age?

For me that would be:

Teacher, 8/9 years old.
Friend, 10 years old
Teacher, 7 years old

The outcome of this thread may, or may not, be used in a court case against my parents.

I learned to swim and ride a bike around twelve-ish. I didn't really want to do either and my parents eventually forced me to learn because it's normal to know how to do those things. I learned to read when I was five or so at catholic school n.n

[escobert]

Who taught you how to swim, and at what age?
Brothers around 5 or 6 ish I think?

Who taught you how to ride a bike, and at what age? My dad and his friends probably about the same age maybe a little bit older

Who taught you how to read, and at what age?
My mom and uh yeah same ageish. I had trouble reading.