Do you make your kids wear helmets on their scooters?

Question

I would like to hear from parents who require their children to wear helmets when they ride bicycles.

We live in a large metropolitan area with lots of bad sidewalks and uneven terrain. Almost all the parents I know require their kids to wear helmets when riding bicycles. But only half of those make their kids wear helmets when they ride scooters.

My personal feeling is that even though you can't go as fast on scooters, the chances of hitting a crack and flipping over the handlebars of the scooter are just as great as having a bike accident. This is why I make my kids wear helmets when they scooter. But my kids think I'm ridiculous (they are 8) and whine about this constantly because their friends don't have to wear helmets when they scooter.

I say, too bad. If they want to risk serious head injuries when the prevention is so easy, then let them. But I won't risk that for my kids.

I'd be interested in hearing from other parents, and especially from people who have witnessed head injuries from bike and/or scooter accidents.

Answer 1

Scooters are very easy to control, and unlike a bike, if the scooter goes down that doesn't mean that u necessarily will to. Scooters are very small and particularly light, very easy to get off in case of accident.

But you are in fact the parent of your own children, so what rules other parents make for their children don't have to effect you, and it is the law (at least it is in my state)

So it's your call. All i can tell you is that in my experience I've never witnessed a child get injured on a scooter.