What age did you let your Dc stop wearing helmets?

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Whilst scooting to school?
Or cycling?

Kneepads/arm/elbow when in skateboards?

DD's friends all scoot to school without helmets and yesterday saw a classmate on a bike without one.

Always wear helmets, kids & adults. Good friends son is into cycling, very competitive as in possible GB team level - has twice been knocked off his bike & his helmet was destroyed but his brain was not, although he still had severe concussion for a week after. Neither crash was at high speed. Not worth the risk of being brain damaged for the vanity of looking more cool. At the time of his 1st crash lots of lads in his year were refusing to wear helmets & parents couldn't be bothered arguing......after his mum posted the photos of his destroyed helmet they were all made to wear helmets again.

And I've seen them out and about on their bikes when they haven't known I'm there and they definitely have their hemets on all the time.

It’s so funny isn’t it, everyone’s kids on MN wears helmets even when they are 16 yet I’ve never seen a teenager wearing a helmet and even the young kids round here very very rare to see any wearing a helmet! There is a man at our school that takes his son to school on his escooter but do not wear helmets.

Cycling, we all wear them, always (DCs are older teens). Scooting they never did, one DC still scoots but always on pavements and has never had an accident. You never see kids with helmets for scooting around here except at the skatepark, mine never went there.

There's a fair amount of evidence to suggest drìvers are more considerate if cyclists aren't wearing helmets and that helmeted cyclists take more risks.

Obviously if you're in a collision a helmet is going to be a big advantage, but wearing one might actually increase that liklihood.

Erm...adults where helmets too you absolute moron!!

@SpringIntoChaos I fail to see how observing that none of DD's friends wearing a helmet whilst scootering to school and that one of her classmates not wearing a helmet makes me a moron. But thank you for your comment.

Mine are competitive cyclists so if wearing a helmet is good enough for Laura Kenny then it is good enough for them!

I have seen a lot of bike crashes and hitting your head does seem to be quite common. I have seen a helmet split right down the middle at the front. The lad got up and walked away rubbing his wrist.

Having said that - a head injury is probably a lot more common in Peloton riding than in “cycling to the shops” riding (as if someone in front of you goes down then you are quite likely to end up head first over your handlebars) so maybe I over estimate the risk.

Ironic.

Cycling - no way I’d stop even as adults

Scooting not sure but dd 4 still does

Never ever, ever. My 30 odd year old boyfriend got hit by a car whilst on his bike and if it wasn’t for his helmet he’d be dead. The outside of his helmet was cracked in half, that’d have been his head.

He was doing nothing wrong and a confident cyclist, the driver just wasn’t paying attention. There’s no age limit to helmets and it’s something I will be non negotiable about with my kid as he grows up.

Erm theres zero age when you head become pavement proof.

Unless you are talking a 1 year old on a sit and ride type bike then anyone actually riding a proper bike should have a helmet.

Shin pad/elbow pads are different and up to personal prefrance (more for skating than biking etc...) but riding a bicycle you would be a shit parent to not enforce a helmet rule which LITRALLY saves lives.

I cracked a helmet in half as a kid, I was going downhill, lost control and bullseyed a tree... everyone was shocked the helmet cracked open but I was completely fine.

Ah yes of course I forgot when Im driving along I delibrately aim to crash into those silly helmet wearing cyclist eyeroll.

Litrally one of the stupidest anti-helmet arguments ever and that take some achieving so well done.

Mine don't go on their bikes or scooters without one.

Kids shouldn't stop wearing helmets when cycling. It's up to them when they're adults but I'd like to think my kids will continue to wear them.

Yep I’m 38 and still wearing a helmet for all these things plus electric scooter hire.

Never. Brains don't magically become impervious to injury at 14.

The main time I’ve fallen off was while riding to the shops, went over the handlebars and yes I hit my head.

Depends on what age you think other cyclists/motorists/pedestrians will actively avoid hitting your child causing them injury. Personally, I only tend to target ages 0-9 when I have an accident and lose control of my car/bike.

Cycling-no age cut off. Should always wear.

Scooting-if just pootling about and not doing stunts. Mine don't wear helmets and never have. I am comfortable their style of scooting us pretty low risk and impact. If they fell its more likely to be hands or knees. No pads.
If they were scooter kids doing stunts in the skatepark they'd need all the safety gear on.

Skateboarding. Mine are rubbish and just sort of play on the drive way. Pads maybe not helmets. If they were good and travelling at speed or in a skatepark doing stunts id insist.

Never. It’s not optional. Same as seatbelts in a car in my book.

Bikes they both wear them - late teen and pre teen - I regularly offer to upgrade the helmets to the coolest version possible. They see their dad wearing one and he cycles daily so it is our norm.

Both have push scooters that they use without helmets - no e scooters here.........yet...... 😀

Never.

You are never too old for a brain injury.

Adults should wear helmets too.

I'm not "anti helmet" and of course it's not "deliberate" very little about human behaviour is. It's just interesting that wearing one or not does change your own and other's behaviour .