training wheels

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“Those are the correct terms. Birth parents are the people who give birth to you. Real parents are the ones who change your diapers and get up in the middle of the night when you’re a baby and show you how to ride a bike without training wheels and, and ” He stopped because he thought maybe he was quoting directly from What to Tell Your Adopted and Foster Children.

From Literature

Lighton leaps further than that — he goes full Evel Knievel by daring to ask how we feel about a relationship that’s indecent, but still has worth as a set of training wheels for a wobbly young man learning what he wants.

From Los Angeles Times

"You can think of the fetal globin gene as the training wheels on a kid's bike," says Prof. Crossley.

From Science Daily

Then, in September 2025, the training wheels came off.

From MarketWatch

And as the company ramps up, Musk said Tesla could shorten the time it keeps safety drivers in the car to “maybe three months” before taking off the training wheels.

From MarketWatch