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If one of my kids gets a concussion, then yes after one I will reassess.  If anyone lets their kid play after 2==they are idiots. [/quote]

My son got his first concussion in 3rd grade, sports related. 
His second in middle school, not sports related.
Both were fairly easy recoveries, a couple days missed school, a week of light duty, back to completely normal afterwards.
He's in high school, and he plays soccer.

Maybe I'm an idiot, but when I talk among my friends I know so many kids who have gotten concussions just from life. If the right thing to do is bench your kid after two concussions, that's a lot of kids who can't do anything anymore.

It's not easy. I have no idea if I'm making the right choice letting him play. [b]I actually think he's safer doing his sports than the crazy horseplay that teen boys get up to. [/b]And his non-sports concussion was from simply not being fully aware of his surroundings, that happens to people all the time throughout their lives. There's really no way to protect against that.[/quote]

Oh come on.  I've no personal skin in this fight but do you REALLY believe this? I cannot believe it if you do.[/quote]

Yes, I think he's safer in his soccer practices and playing in soccer games than pretending he's a tight rope walker walking across the top of a 4 foot tall chain link fence right next to concrete. I think he's safer with soccer than when he and his friends get up to skateboard tricks and he hopes I don't notice he's "forgotten" his helmet. His coaches don't forget safety - it's critical to the game and they enforce safe behaviors. Teenagers egg each other on and often completely ignore that they're mere mortals.[/quote]

Ok soccer moms and dads, read this article.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/15/footballers-could-be-at-risk-of-dementia-from-blows-to-the-head-study-suggests

The current research is showing that concussions are not the only cause of CTE; repeated, sub-concussive lows to the head appear to be another cause. 
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