I spent $300 outsourcing a parenting rite of passage. I’d do it again.

I’m going to admit something here that’s probably going to get a lot of parents up in arms: I paid a guy $300 to teach my two kids to ride a bike.

I know that $150 for a bike lesson is exorbitant, and it was one of the reasons I hesitated to do it (or talk about it publicly). But when I reframed it in my mind as an extremely finite cost for a job I could not do myself, for what will hopefully be a lifetime of family bike rides — I decided I could live with it.

And I have zero regrets.

We tried to teach our kids ourselves and totally failed

My kids are 6 and 8. We live in a New York City apartment, so I can’t just send them outside to futz around…