glbirch
Contributor
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Nearly every day in the summer, I'll see a family biking. All the children are wearing helmets, but not the parents. They'll buckle the kids into the car, but not use the seatbelt themselves. Kids get life jackets, but the parents don't wear them (Boat tips, both parents drown, children survive. Happened last week: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1089225270247_84634470/?hub=TopStories )
So what are we teaching our kids? That safety gear is something to be endured until you are an adult? Or until you're out of site of the parents? Happens all the time at the skateboard park near my house. Parents drop the kids off with all the gear. As soon as the car drives away, gear comes off.
Can't we do better than this as parents?
(Step down from soapbox.)
Nearly every day in the summer, I'll see a family biking. All the children are wearing helmets, but not the parents. They'll buckle the kids into the car, but not use the seatbelt themselves. Kids get life jackets, but the parents don't wear them (Boat tips, both parents drown, children survive. Happened last week: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1089225270247_84634470/?hub=TopStories )
So what are we teaching our kids? That safety gear is something to be endured until you are an adult? Or until you're out of site of the parents? Happens all the time at the skateboard park near my house. Parents drop the kids off with all the gear. As soon as the car drives away, gear comes off.
Can't we do better than this as parents?
(Step down from soapbox.)