{
  "id": "taking-off-the-training-wheels.withdrawn-support",
  "term": "taking off the training wheels",
  "sense": "withdrawn-support",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "Maintenance of another's walls stopped on purpose, because the one doing it models the other's own reach as now enough to hold them.",
  "folk_gloss": "removing the supports so someone does a thing on their own",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "wall.range-end",
      "hold.physical",
      "stop.action",
      "purpose.goal",
      "model.representation",
      "reach.action",
      "enough.sufficient",
      "agency.capacity",
      "power.over",
      "doing.activity",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "An enabling power had been holding another's window from outside; it is withdrawn on purpose when the holder's model reads the other's agency as able to take over. The walls stay; who holds them changes, and the other learns its reach by meeting them.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "power used by being withdrawn",
      "a handover of walls, not their removal",
      "a bet made on a model of another's reach"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A parent who removes the training wheels from a child's bicycle once the child can balance, and lets go of the seat, is the literal case the phrase names.",
      "domain": "everyday"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "helicopter-parenting.never-withdrawn",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the same held window; here the holding stops when the other's reach is ready, there it never stops"
    },
    {
      "id": "scaffold.temporary",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a scaffold is the temporary held window; taking off the training wheels is the moment it is taken away"
    },
    {
      "id": "autonomy.self-governed",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "handing over the walls is how held dependence becomes walls set from within"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "take off the training wheels",
    "takes off the training wheels",
    "taking off the training wheels",
    "took off the training wheels",
    "training wheels off"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-28",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-taking-off-the-training-wheels.withdrawn-support"
}