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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
I think the whole "I want my kids to learn to be safe, so I'm not gonna make them wear helmets" is the most backwards thinking I've ever heard.
If you want your kids to be safe, make them safe by teaching them that one of the best ways to deal with risk/danger is to wear the right equipment.
In the workplace you would never say "Hey I want you guys to work safe, so no hardhats or safety glasses this week, that way you'll learn to respect the dangers", so why would you use that logic on your kids?
Sure we never wore helmets tobogganing when we were kids, but we didn't wear them skiing either and now 90% of people (including most adults) wear helmets when they ski. We are learning so much, it's not pussification, it's managing preventable (potentially major) injuries to your kids.
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I get that but PPE is only meant as a last resort between accident and injury. Being safe is almost 100 percent behavioural. If a kid feels they can take more risks because they are wearing a helmet, then are they really safer? It really should be both and I don't see why it can't be. I just think all to often people assume PPE makes them safe when it is only a small part. People get concussions all the time wearing helmets.