Do most kids in the neighborhood wear bike helmets?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work at a Title One school and none of the kids in the neighborhood have helmets. In my neighborhood, the only ones who don't wear them are in HS.

OP here. I live in a high income neighborhood, so it's not a resources thing. But it is about 85% Asian and South Asian immigrants (the parents), so now I think it's more a cultural thing (several don't use car seats for kids, and I see four year olds are riding up in the front seats of the cars, etc.).

[Anonymous]

Most of the kids in my immediate neighborhood don't. Mine does.

[Anonymous]

Close-in suburbs. All the elementary school aged kids in my neighborhood wear helmets. Some of the older ones don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CCDC, all wear helmets.

+1

Tween/ teen skateboarders not as reliably, though. And they do ride down the middle of Nevada and 41st sometimes

[Anonymous]

Our neighborhood kids used to for about a decade after one kid had to be airlifted to the hospital after cracking her skull open biking over uneven sidewalk. Now, only about 10 percent wear them and it's mainly the elementary school kids or younger. Parents seem oblivious.

[Anonymous]

Yep, except for the European kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work at a Title One school and none of the kids in the neighborhood have helmets. In my neighborhood, the only ones who don't wear them are in HS.

OP here. I live in a high income neighborhood, so it's not a resources thing. But it is about 85% Asian and South Asian immigrants (the parents), so now I think it's more a cultural thing (several don't use car seats for kids, and I see four year olds are riding up in the front seats of the cars, etc.).

Ah, do you have a neighbor that left their 6 year old kid at the YMCA pool alone? What is this front seat thing, is it b/c the parents don't want to be seen as 'servants' to their kids or something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work at a Title One school and none of the kids in the neighborhood have helmets. In my neighborhood, the only ones who don't wear them are in HS.

OP here. I live in a high income neighborhood, so it's not a resources thing. But it is about 85% Asian and South Asian immigrants (the parents), so now I think it's more a cultural thing (several don't use car seats for kids, and I see four year olds are riding up in the front seats of the cars, etc.).

Ah, do you have a neighbor that left their 6 year old kid at the YMCA pool alone? What is this front seat thing, is it b/c the parents don't want to be seen as 'servants' to their kids or something?

? Servants? Doubt it. I grew up that way too. I always rode in the front seat as a kid.

[Anonymous]

Almost everyone.

[Anonymous]

Capitol Hill. Pretty much every kid wears a helmet, even the kids on scooters at the playground.

[Anonymous]

I see teens skateboarding without helmets, but everyone else yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, except for the European kids.

The European kids wear helmets in our neighborhood. And they sit in car seats in the back seat of the car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, except for the European kids.

The European kids wear helmets in our neighborhood. And they sit in car seats in the back seat of the car.

Does anyone even think about it anymore? They're like seat belts - of course you wear them.