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Re: Question for all parents out there..... [Re: Crystal G]
    #23982962 - 01/05/17 01:52 AM (7 years, 25 days ago)

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it seems you're the one pushing conflicting values, my kids down own a helmet, in
fact my daughter broke her arm riding her bike and the hospital wanted to be sure
she didnt have a concussion because she had no helmet on... she's also seen
animals slaughtered




No helmet?! The brain is the most important organ there is, one hard crash and you could end up with seizures for life or something








how many years did people function without helmets?


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Re: Question for all parents out there..... [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #23982977 - 01/05/17 02:11 AM (7 years, 25 days ago)

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how many years did people function without helmets?




What does that have to do with anything, the original automobiles didn't have seat belts either. Do you think it's a good idea to drive on a freeway without wearing a seatbelt too?

Gary Busey is a perfect example of why you should wear helmets while biking. And why somebody should take it easy on the drugs sometimes. :lol:


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Re: Question for all parents out there..... [Re: Crystal G]
    #23983201 - 01/05/17 06:53 AM (7 years, 25 days ago)

My cousin's husband was in a serious wreck with his buddy years and years ago. He wasn't wearing a seatbelt, was ejected through the windshield and survived. Buddy was wearing a seatbelt but wasn't so lucky. I'd say the fact that most people agree it should be a choice is relevant to the fact that it's safety is limited to the idea that it's infallible.

As someone who has done a lot of stupid shit on bikes, I can safely say that you're far more likely to smash or break everything but your head. Should kids wear helmets? At a certain age, if you can make them at all, sure maybe. That doesn't mean they won't take it off though.


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Re: Question for all parents out there..... [Re: larry.fisherman]
    #23983798 - 01/05/17 12:23 PM (7 years, 25 days ago)

if you hit your head at 40mph you're dead or at least paralyzed

people get punched in the street fall over and die all it takes is a blood clot


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Re: Question for all parents out there..... [Re: Konyap] * 1
    #23983862 - 01/05/17 12:44 PM (7 years, 25 days ago)

Very young children don't have fully formed skulls or only recently formed skulls. I'm sure someone can better explain the developmental science of why. There was a girl in my 1st grade class that broke her skull on the gym's carpeted floor after falling off the pull up bars.

So yeah I can see why people make their kids wear a bike helmet. And it is law in some places. I had bad motor skills so I wrecked my bike alot. Got scraped up pretty bad. Only hit my head once and it was from pulling back too hard going over a ramp. Funny enough I was wearing a helmet but it was one of those stupid aerodynamic speed helmets so I still smashed the back of my head on the ramp.

I didn't break it. I was like 10 or 11 tho. Children are often more limber and unbreakable than us old folk but they are little and their heads are fragile.

I smacked my little brother in the head with a baseball bat when he was like 3 or 4 and I think he may be borderline retarded because of it :lol: we wrestled all the time. We both took alot of hits to the head/face and scared the fuck out of our parents... My older brother is the one that had repeated visits to the hospital. Was it the fact he was ADHD? Or was it because there wasn't as much "safety awareness" in the 80s?


:ohwell: a helmet costs 10 bucks and doesn't bother a kid if it fits properly. We can debate all day about the safety measures that have been implemented in the last 20 years but I'd rather see a kid bike around the block with a helmet than be forced to bike in a 1500sf backyard without one.
I think our paranoia that is effecting their social lives and situational awareness is worse to their development than making them use safety scissors and wear helmets. Like it's okay to take precautions. It's not okay to keep them inside all the time and not let them do anything for themselves.


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Re: Question for all parents out there..... [Re: larry.fisherman]
    #23983886 - 01/05/17 01:02 PM (7 years, 25 days ago)

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XLCaps said:
As someone who has done a lot of stupid shit on bikes, I can safely say that you're far more likely to smash or break everything but your head. Should kids wear helmets? At a certain age, if you can make them at all, sure maybe. That doesn't mean they won't take it off though.




The brain is the most important organism though. You hurt your leg or your arm, big deal, it'll heal. And even if it doesn't, you can live just fine without an arm or a leg and your quality of life can still be good. You hit your head too hard one time though, and you could end up with epilepsy or amnesia or go into a coma. That's the sort of thing that leaves you with no choice but to live off disability checks for the rest of your life.


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Re: Question for all parents out there..... [Re: Crystal G]
    #23983942 - 01/05/17 01:26 PM (7 years, 25 days ago)

I never wore a helmet growing up none of us did.  But once I started doing triathlons I started wearing a helmet. Mainly because sooner or later a car would hit me, I'd wipeout on a sharp turn on wet roads, or eat shit coming down a big steep hill. Luckily none of those have happened. Ive taken a couple falls but nothing bad just fractured wrists.  I'm surprised none of my brothers and I ended up a vegetable.
Many many years ago a kid was sitting on a tennis court net, fell backwards hitting his head and either died or is a vegetable now.  I cannot remember I was very young when my dad told me.  It happened at the courts by the pool that I spent much of my childhood at working out and running wild.


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