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Where do you find bicycle safety courses for children? |
I have children ages 6, & 10, who don't understand the importance of wearing a helmet & safety gear. Please help. Check out the League of American Bicyclists and see if they have any classes in your area. If they don't, maybe they can recommend someone. If that's not a good option, do your own demo. Get a couple of small mellons (maybe cantellope) -- one really ripe and the other a bit green (but not so much that the kids will notice). Put the green one in a helmet and drop them both from the same height (5 or 6 ft) so the helmet hits first. The green one in the helmet will be OK and the ripe one will splat. Then ask them if that's what they want to have happen to their head! The helmet wins every time (plus they got to watch Mom or Dad make a mess with a mellon)! You might have to make up an excuse why you don't re-drop the one in the helmet to prove that it'd break, too, so be prepared. Mellon for breakfast? Source(s): http://www.bikeleague.org/ explain it to them yourself. The way my mom got me to wear my helmet, when I was younger, was by telling me that it made her happy... and I figured "hey, if doing something so simple makes my mom happy, then why not do it?" That was back then... Now, however, having wiped out a couple of times (I ride a lot, as well), I wear a helmet all the time, and I encourage my friends to do it as well. Another angle you could shoot at your kids is: all the pros do it. It's true. If you watch pro mountain bikers or tour de france bikers, they all wear helmets. Of course they do - they probably wouldn't be around if they didn't. Keep encouraging helmet use. It's very important! Good luck! |
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