"Champ" wrote in message
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| On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:33:45 -0000, "Séan"
| wrote:
|
| Lets be sensible for a moment.....
| The potential for serious injury, and I'm talking about to your
childs
| brain, is greatly increased whilst skiing, unlike walking to the
shops!
| Its not about 'litigtion' or what she might do to herself, its all
the
| other idiots skiing on the edge of control and about to lose it at
the next
| bump in the snow.
|
| We all know that it is folly to let your child ride a bike without a
helmet
| for the same reason.
|
| Boy this stuff makes me mad!
|
| One of the most important things about skiing/snowboarding is being
| out in such a fantastic environment, and experiencing it to the full.
| Part of this is being aware of the dangers of the environment, too.
|
| Now, the last thing I want to do is put some glassfibre between me and
| that experience. And, as I know very well from riding and racing
| motorcycles, putting on a helmet will cause some risk-compensation
| behaviour. Far better to teach the kids that skiing is a potentially
| dangerous activity, and act accordingly.
|
| And - I really can't understand how generations of kids used to cycle
| to school without a helmet (me included), but now "we all know it is
| folly to let your child ride a bike without a helmet". I know no such
| thing.

Rip out all the safety belts and let's teach everyone to drive more
carefully, shall we? LOL.

Pete