Do your kids wear a helmet while riding a bike? EDIT added question
Just wondering if you make your kids wear a helmet while riding there bike and or there scooter? Theres several neighbor kids that dont wear a helmet at all so my ds that almost 7 ask why they dont have to wear a helemt and if he can ride his bike without a helmet? I told him i dont know why there not wearing a helmet its not safe to not wear a helmet while riding a bike. So i asked him what are the rules about riding your bike? he says i have to wear a helmet if i want to ride my bike.
So one of the neighbor girls shes about ds age maybe a year older was riding her bike without a helmet while we went for a walk. and he asks her wheres your helmet she says i dont have one so he says you are supposed to wear a helmet its not safe and she says no im not and rides off.
EDIT: If you dont make your kids were a helmet why not? Its a huge safety issue. You make them ride in a car seat or a seat belt. you dont let them run around with knifes or play with fire and other unsafe thing why not make them wear a helmet its the same thing
Quoting hammomof2:
not in the back yard because they can't really ride with the way our yard is, but if we're going for a walk and they want to ride then they have to. I'll be one of the bad moms though after they learn to ride a 2 wheeler then I probably won't make them.
Are you also the kind of Mom that doesn't think seatbelts are important?
I would never allow my children to ride without a helmet. I have seen first hand what TBI's (traumatic brain injuries) can do to people, people of all ages. It is a very unsettling thing to see how quickly a person's life can be completely changed an in instant from something as simple as falling.
Quoting ShannieP:
This. People around here drive like assholes an you just never know. My kids are young so I am supervising them but still... They also aren't allowed to ride I. The stree unless I am standing in the street with them
Quoting black.eyeliner:
Yes. We had two bike accidents that were very serious. Thankfully I am strict with the helmet rule. The worst was my 12 year old who was run down in a cross walk and the tire hit her head. She suffered minor fractures to her skull and brain swelling. The helmet was destroyed. If she hadn't been wearing it my daughters skull would have shattered.
Quoting Tea4Tas:Yes it's the law-and the cops her ticket like it't their job...Oh wait it IS their job!
I live in a subdivision and the parents here feel it is important. To that end the kids bikes are all given a plate. In order to use the pool they need to show the plate and their helmet to get in...IF a child is seen riding with no helmet, you can report the plate number to the head of the division, and he will look up the parent and call them. I told my kids ONE call and the bike goes away for a month....I have ratted out more than a few kids.
Quoting notjstanothrmom:
For your added question: Although they are young and wear them now when they are older and don't want to then I am not going to force them unless we're riding on the street or on a bike trail. Around the yard is not really something I would be concerned about.
We are safety freaks. My son RF to 4 and my daughter is still RF at 3.5 but bikes are much less dangerous then driving a car.
You need to force it. It needs to become as automatic as a seatbelt.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Studies have shown wearing a helmet while riding a bicycle reduces one's risk of death by more than 50 percent, yet every three days, a child in the United States is killed while riding a bicycle, and every day at least 100 children are treated in emergency rooms due to bicycle-related head injuries.
A report released today by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health reveals that in areas where no bicycle helmet laws exist, nearly one-half of children, ages 4 - 17, never wear a helmet.
"These statistics underscore the importance of helmet laws to help prevent death and injury from children not wearing helmets while riding their bikes," says Matthew M. Davis, M.D., director of the National Poll on Children's Health. "Yet only twenty one states have helmet use laws for children."
Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicate universal bicycle helmet use by children, ages 4 - 15, would prevent about 40,000 head injuries and about 50,000 scalp and face injuries every year.
And your state has a law. As do 20 other states. Not too cool to start teaching kids there are laws we can ignore...
Quoting bebe_ju-rah:
Eff that! You seriously need a hobby.
Quoting Tea4Tas:
Yes it's the law-and the cops her ticket like it't their job...Oh wait it IS their job!
I live in a subdivision and the parents here feel it is important. To that end the kids bikes are all given a plate. In order to use the pool they need to show the plate and their helmet to get in...IF a child is seen riding with no helmet, you can report the plate number to the head of the division, and he will look up the parent and call them. I told my kids ONE call and the bike goes away for a month....I have ratted out more than a few kids.
Why because I help keep kids from dying? It;s a pledge the parents signed in our neighborhood. It works too. We initiated it 4 years ago, and you used to see kids with no helmets ALL of the time-now it is rare as hell. I can't recall the last time I saw a kid with a plated bicycle and no helmet on.
i make mine wear helmet,safety gear. but one day they took them off. my daughter came in bloody elbow i was so angry. then she went back out i told her safety gear first. she put it on but did not tighten it right and came bk in with bloody elbow same one only bigger. needless to say she refused to go out and ride anymore that night.
we live in the country, they ride in the grass, my youngest wear there helmets,but my oldest no, but all of them were helmets when riding the mini biki,go cart, or 4 wheeler
Am I wrong for not giving a F**** that hes dying?
- kcook55
on Jun. 10, 2012 at 9:52 AM