When I was a kid, we never wore a “brain bucket.” I am glad to see that my son insists that my grandchildren wear the appropriate protection for whatever sport or activity they are playing. My granddaughters put on a helmet to ride a bike as automatically as I buckle up as soon as I sit in a car.
Generations of children, myself included, grew up without the benefit of bicycle helmets, elbow guards, knee guards, and copious layers of carefully applied bubble wrap, and survived childhood. We got bumps, bruises, cuts, and road rash (one of my more spectacular accidents), and learned what not to do when riding a bike.
My brother finally learned to look BOTH ways when exiting the driveway, while simultaneously scaring the crap out of a neighbor in her car, and nearly getting himself killed.
Personally, I feel that we overprotect our children. None of us ever injured our heads while riding our bikes. Though I did injure something else, showing off, hitting a parked car and not completely clearing the handlebar. A helmet would not have helped.
Getting hurt is life’s way of teaching us “Hey, Stupid, DON’T do that again!”
The only way I can think of that a helmet would help is if a child were to get hit by a vehicle and survive. We didn’t have that problem because we got the crap spanked out of us if we disobeyed and rode in traffic.
We were taught to look BOTH ways, to obey traffic signs, and when possible to avoid anything that looked dangerous. Our parents trusted us to use common sense and good judgement.
Granted, not that I didn’t mess up a few times and actually survived. Turned out that that motorcycle run really was completely vertical about halfway down. Noticed when my bike levitated off of the ground, while literally pointed straight down.
I was showing off, and hasn’t really intended to go down the hill. Had I hit those rocks at the bottom of the hill, a helmet would probably not have helped.
My guardian angel was incredibly patient, and overworked.
oldpine52 over 5 years ago
It does seem a little redundant.
over 5 years ago
He has to wear it during his shift every knight.
finkd over 5 years ago
His mom didn’t want him to get hurt if he got knocked off his horse during a joust.
Arianne over 5 years ago
That poor guy’s going to have the worst case of helmet hair ever !
mddshubby2005 over 5 years ago
But mother’s mind was not changed, and thus Sir Cumspect earned his title.
jpayne4040 over 5 years ago
Telling Mom I don’t want to wear it would never work when I was growing up.
DanFlak over 5 years ago
When I was a kid, we never wore a “brain bucket.” I am glad to see that my son insists that my grandchildren wear the appropriate protection for whatever sport or activity they are playing. My granddaughters put on a helmet to ride a bike as automatically as I buckle up as soon as I sit in a car.
JudyAz over 5 years ago
When he goes to bed, does his mother kiss him good knight?
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 5 years ago
You can buy them at the Sir Plus store.
cheap_day_return over 5 years ago
He needs a bumper sticker for the back of his horse: “HELMET LAWS SUCK”
Stephen Gilberg over 5 years ago
This may or may not be worse than the football helmet on the chess player in “A Mighty Wind.”
Andrew Sleeth over 5 years ago
I’m going to step out on a limb here and guess that guy still lives with his mother, and that’s a chocolate milk mustache, not facial hair.
MikeJ over 5 years ago
Generations of children, myself included, grew up without the benefit of bicycle helmets, elbow guards, knee guards, and copious layers of carefully applied bubble wrap, and survived childhood. We got bumps, bruises, cuts, and road rash (one of my more spectacular accidents), and learned what not to do when riding a bike.
My brother finally learned to look BOTH ways when exiting the driveway, while simultaneously scaring the crap out of a neighbor in her car, and nearly getting himself killed.
Personally, I feel that we overprotect our children. None of us ever injured our heads while riding our bikes. Though I did injure something else, showing off, hitting a parked car and not completely clearing the handlebar. A helmet would not have helped.
Getting hurt is life’s way of teaching us “Hey, Stupid, DON’T do that again!”
The only way I can think of that a helmet would help is if a child were to get hit by a vehicle and survive. We didn’t have that problem because we got the crap spanked out of us if we disobeyed and rode in traffic.
We were taught to look BOTH ways, to obey traffic signs, and when possible to avoid anything that looked dangerous. Our parents trusted us to use common sense and good judgement.
Granted, not that I didn’t mess up a few times and actually survived. Turned out that that motorcycle run really was completely vertical about halfway down. Noticed when my bike levitated off of the ground, while literally pointed straight down.
I was showing off, and hasn’t really intended to go down the hill. Had I hit those rocks at the bottom of the hill, a helmet would probably not have helped.
My guardian angel was incredibly patient, and overworked.