Do you let your teen ride a electric scooter in the city?
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Anonymous
That's for parents to decide and regulate. |
Anonymous
I disagree. We regulate driving. These things are like letting kids drive motorcycles. |
Anonymous
| Mine did, they are everywhere here and kids use them to go between parties or late night sneak outs. That’s not to say any of them do that with permission - for me I didn’t know. My 15 yo rode one with her friend on the back, fell and got a concussion. That was the end of that for her (she didn’t want to ride again, I didn’t have to ban). I know kids who knocked their teeth out on them. |
Anonymous
| No, I don't. A permanant head injury is not something you can come back from. I also would never allow my kids to get on trampolines. I have a best friend who is an ER doctor. The horror stories were enough for me. |
Anonymous
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We live in a place similar to Bethesda (partly walkable but with a lot of spread out neighborhoods) on the streets closest to the main shopping area where all the kids want to go. The kids from the further out parts of the neighborhood all have electric scooters or rent scooters since they have phones. Because our house faces one of the streets right by the helping area, we see all of these kids en route.
DO NOT let your kid ride these. I’ve seen really bad choices (3 kids on a scooter cutting in front of cars going 25 mph + no helmets) and bad accidents. Yet nothing seems to deter these kids or parents. One parent at our school, when school banned the scooters on campus, asked “how will my kid get around?”. One parent said that their child can’t be expected to walk and another said she let them use the scooter because “I can’t drive them every time they want to go somewhere”. These are 10-12 year olds. The stuff I’ve seen the 15-16 year olds do is far worse. We were eating on the porch one night and a kid wrecked and a pile of liquor bottles spilled out of his bag and broke or rolled everywhere. He was limping and scraped up and flinging bottles into the bushes and trying to pretend he was invisible while we asked if he was ok and if we could call for help. |
Anonymous
| ^shopping area, not helping area. Sorry, can’t proof. |
Anonymous
So you cannot parent correctly is what you are saying? That you need government to raise your kids for you? What lead you to think this way? Do they just not respect your decisions or wishes and out of control that you need the police to raise them? |
Anonymous
| Do you think making them wear a helmet helps or is just as dangerous. My kid says it is no worse than riding his bike around (he is lobbying to get a scooter). Its hard to regulate what happens at friends houses when they hop on someone else's scooter. |
Anonymous
| I personally have wrapped my kids in bubble wrap and don’t let them leave the house. |
Anonymous
Parent of an older teen here. What are the most common scooter injuries you see? |
Anonymous
| Two 12 year old girls were just killed when they hit a curb and fell into traffic. |
Anonymous
Helmet helps. But isn’t sufficient for me. I let my kid do a lot independently but no scooters, no e-bikes, and no trampolines. Too many ER staff on the family. |