Helmets on scooters

Hi

I'm just wondering if most people get their kids to wear helmets on their scooters?

My nearly 3yr old is getting quite good on her scooter now, and is able to ride it to the park and along the waterfront etc.

If she falls off, her tumble seems to be no worse than if she trips over, but I've heard other kids comment (in horror!) to their parents that she isn't wearing a helmet...

Does your child wear a helmet on a scooter?

Yep, Amy got her two wheel scooter for her 3rd birthday and part of the present was the helmet. The deal is no helmet not scoot. The same rule came in for Sophie when she got her running bike for her 2nd birthday.

We we going to kindy the other week and the girls were on their scooter & bike and there was a boy and a girl in front of us on their way to school - aged about 6. The boy fell off and cut his head open (not major but there was blood) and Amy said after "he wasn't wearing his helmet was he Mummy? Is that why he hurt himself?"
My kids have had enough tumbles and bumps that I would like to reduce the chance of more!!

i dont think theyre really necessary yet. Maybe if the child was going fast down a hill or something but a 3 or 4 yr old surely isnt going to give themselves more than grazed knees on a scooter

i would probably get my kids to wear one. if they are going down the street or anything they could get hit by a reversing car just as easy as if they were on a bike. its not so much how much damage they could do coming off but what others could do

J and T both have them, and don't wear helmets, but I think from now on I am going to enforce that rule when they are scootering anywhere apart from home. Taine went up a hill and came down on his face about two weeks ago and we were off to the doctors to check for a broken nose and fractured skull, so yeah, i think helmets are a pretty good idea. And elbow and knee pads. But J wants to go to the skate park with his too.

jaycee wrote: Lol MrsMc - when my two get going I have to jog to keep up . If they came off, especially down hill, it could be very nasty.

i suppose. I must just be stuck back in the day where we never wore helmets for anything, but good point, i didnt realise they would go that fast at a young age