Do your kids wear a helmet when riding their bike?

When my kids were young, we moved on the east coast and were shamed by those people for endangering our kids letting them recklessly ride without helmets...to the point the HOA stopped by and reminded us it was a law.

We moved back.

I Live in New Orleans with the world’s worst roads and the world’s worst drivers. Might need a helmet

We wear helmets on BSA outings when riding, because it is required. When it is just the family/friends ... no.

Don't have kids but I do ride bike for exercise regularly. I wear a helmet when I ride. I don't particularly care about looking like a dork, and usually on the trails, most people are wearing a helmet and some that don't so it's not like you stick out like a sore thumb or anything.

I'd rather look like a dork and have a lower risk that I'll have a brain injury than increase my chance at a brain injury.

But, I'm also not just casually riding a block to class at low speed.

No, but I make sure that I wear a condom and a mask

I made my 7 year old son wear a helmet skateboarding. Since he was used to and a daredevil I stayed with that rule. He did not care and never complained about the helmet

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I made my 7 year old son wear a helmet skateboarding.

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this is completely reasonable. a skateboard is inherently unstable and it's not a matter of if but when you'll take a fall. i skated for awhile in middle school / high school and i always wore a helmet for that.

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i dont make my kids wear helmets. the chances of a serious head injury from a bike fall are negligibly small.

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I :kige: this. My 3 year old is already a little daredevil and our neighborhood is hilly. He is just getting the hang of a pedal bike so he puts on a helmet. It's weird because he tells me to put on a helmet that I can remember and in the sport of being a good example I put on my wife's bike helmet since I've never owned one. She thinks it's weird and has never not worn a bike helmet.

As a kid I owned 4wheelers 3wheelers and dirt bikes and never owned a helmet. She thinks I'm a retard. She could be on to something

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of all the people i've ever known in my life, thousands probably, who rode a bike without a helmet as a kid, i know precisely zero who had a head injury from a bike fall

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I've never known anyone who was killed by not wearing a seatbelt but it still happens all the time.

In 2016, 424 cyclists deaths were with riders not wearing a helmet vs 137 who wore a helmet.