When teaching your little ones to ride a bike, please don't ever forget the importance regarding the bikehelmet. As the teaching adult, you should wear a helmet too. Howcome should they look the necessity of wearing a helmet when you don't? Even though teens don't ever need to wear helmets by law confirm out for the law in your state, they absolutely should. My children were not ever allowed to ride without a helmet at any age, a family rule that caused many fighting during their formative teenage years. My one son was even pulled over by the police on multiple occassions, and rewarded with a coupon for a free ice fresh cream cone due to the fact that he was wearing a helmet.
How devestating for a 14 year old! His colleagues did not need to wear a helmet and he was mortified to be the only one who did. Here are a little statistics from the Bicycle Helmet Security Institute:The typical bicyclist killed on our roads is a sober male over 16 not wearing a helmet riding on a primary path between intersections in an urban region on a summer evening when hit by a car. About 540,000 bicyclists see emergency rooms with injuries every year. Of those, about 67,000 have head injuries, and 27,000 have injuries serious enough to be hospitalized. Non-helmeted riders are 14 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than helmeted riders.
If your child learns to ride a bicycle and component of that lesson includes the fact that she should wear a helmet, she shall recognize that this is component of bicycle riding forever. Being cold is not nearly enough of a trade-off compared to risks of not wearing a helmet.
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