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.

I've never made the dc wear a helmet for scooting - it is comparatively slow and not on a road.

They always wear a helmet for cycling. They are 9 and 11 now and I can't imagine this will change.

Seriously. At no age, it's a handy piece of equipment to help prevent /reduce head injury so why would you?

Bike helmets are for ever...
Very tragically, a local teenager recently died when knocked off their bike by a car. (Not sure whether or not she was wearing a helmet).
But bike helmets are for ever, and you are always safer wearing one than not.

Precisely

In our family we all wear helmets when cycling! Even DH and I in our fifties!

No helmet - no bike was my rule. They never had a scooter though so that never came up. Helmets are recommended for e scooters, although not a legal requirement, so same as cycling.

When they reached the age of 18 and I couldn't tell them anymore. I strongly suggested they still use them though.

Someone we know in her fifties was riding a bike at a very sedate pace returning from the shops, and her back wheel slipped out from underneath her on a patch of mud and she was unbalanced and fell over and slammed her head on the side of the pavement, sustaining a head injury which has taken over fourteen months to recover from. She was not wearing a helmet and was riding at a snail's pace.

I don’t it’s not safe. I have seen kids have quit nasty bangs to the head all of which were avoidable had they worn helmets on scooters/bikes. One ended up in A&E.

Never, until they're an adult and can make their own decisions.

I started wearing a helmet for skiing and snowboarding in my 30s - it wasn't commonly done when I was younger but most people wear them now. Cycling, always.

I still wear one when cycling and I'm 27...

Having sneaked mine off age 11 and cracked my skull I consider it important.

If they are on a bike or a scooter they will wear a helmet, as long as I can influence them they will wear helmets.

A child that I knew had an accident on his bike as a five year old without a helmet and go from a confident happy kid- to a child with severe brain damage, severe uncontrollable epilepsy and numerous medical problems that needed many major surgeries and caused him pain until he died at age eleven.
I don't care what their friends are doing- I don't care if they are the only children they know who wear helmets. They wear the helmets.

Ours still have to - 14 and 12. But we wear them too, partly because we wouldn't expect them to if we weren't. I think they should be compulsory for all actually.

The older they get the more likely they are to need a helmet! My 3yo is not going to go fast enough to do much damage (bar a freak accident) 10yo is.