When you have always been pretty sporty to hear someone say that your son shows significant cause for concern during PE is quite upsetting, and at that moment in time we were gutted. Once we had taken a step back and thought about it we took it with the pinch of salt that it deserved – he is after all, not yet 5.

However, we have always known that he isn’t the most agile of children. He was slow to crawl and then walk and has the most comical run I have ever seen, he has also inherited my clumsiness His poor balance however has held him back the most, we struggled for ages to get him to ride a bike with stabilisers and you can see how hard he tries in swimming lessons but gets nowhere.

When an email dropped into my inbox asking if we would like to review a Micro Scooter I couldn’t reply quickly enough. Something fun to do in the holidays that would get J outside and active. Perhaps it would help? The really clever bit was that we were sent 2 scooters – a Maxi Micro for J and a Micro Sprite for Daddy. To have your own scooter is fab, but to be able to go outside and do the same thing as Daddy is just amazing and really sold it to him.

The Easter bunny was a bit early and delivered our scooters on the last day of term, and they were straight outside on them. Daddy had a full week off whilst I worked and so it gave the boys a fun activity that they could do anywhere.

The scooters are really lightweight and the sprite folds down incredibly quickly to make it both portable and easy to store – not that they have been stored at all!

To begin with J found it fairly difficult, the mechanism to turn is different to anything he has done before and it took him a good week of use before he had cracked corners. I was really surprised to find that he had figured out the braking too which was a welcome change to him just jumping off when he wanted to stop! Which reminds me that I really must get him a helmet!

The scooters now come everywhere with us and even I have had a go on the Sprite! They will be great to take camping with us as they won’t take up any room in the tent .

J’s Maxi Micro is quite possibly the best present he has had, he now wants to go outside after school and is really keen to show off his scooter to anyone that come round. The improvement in him on it in just the last month has given him so much confidence, he now even wants to go on his bike as he believes he will be able to do it.

My boy that shied away from doing anything active at school as he didn’t think he would be able to do it has asked to join after school tennis club. I think his teacher was as surprised as I was. The only thing that has changed is his Micro Scooter!

See how he improved in just the first week in this video:

To help celebrate the Jubilee and the Olympics this year you can now get your own special edition Union Jack Scooters, complete with either bag or bottle holder depending on the model – Mini Micro Scooters cost £64.95 and the maxi Micro Union Jack Scooters are £105.

We were sent 2 Micro Scooters for the purpose of this review. My review is honest and in my own words.