HardyWeinberg

Afraid so.

One of my son's friend's moms doesn't wear a helmet biking, and I probably don't think she should, she rides a cruiser pulling a trailer with her baby, she grew up before helmets (like all the parents I guess), I don't think she rides off the sidewalk even in the neighborhood. In general they've been of the school (kind of as we are) of letting our kids learn through experience why they don't slam their heads into pointy things (neither they nor we have gone all out w/ foam corners on tables/hearths etc...). They are willing to let their kids not wear helmets, we are not. And it turns out, their kids want helmets anyway and got them. My son has seen me after a couple wipeouts and he knows he doesn't want to go through that so I never have to remind him about his helmet, and that's about the limit of my job.