Occasional or regular non-bike helmet cyclist?

[shootingstar]

Another thing is, why do people think it's OK to insist that children wear helmets, but not for adults? Like our heads won't suffer when we hit them? You wouldn't be upset if your spouse had a TBI, but you would if it was your kid?
It seems like my opinion is in the minority on this thread, and I'm OK with it, but I do get upset with issues of safety, health, etc.

Hard to understand how to make children wear them, but parent not wear a helmet.

Hebe, Canada has stricter gun control laws than U.S. But our police officers on the street are armed with gun holster, etc.

[hebe]

Hard to understand how to make children wear them, but parent not wear a helmet.

Hebe, Canada has stricter gun control laws than U.S. But our police officers on the street are armed with gun holster, etc.

The logic as I understand it is that childrens' skulls are softer and still growing, and that children are intrinsically more likely to come off their bikes (exhuberance, lack of experience etc), therefore a helmet makes sense. Small girl wears one whenever in the trailer or on her bike, non-negotiable. I always wear one too when towing her. I actually walked the bike part of the way back from nursery yesterday after she managed to get her helmet off and wouldn't put it back on. No helmet, no speed faster than slow walking.

Pax, shootingstar, thank you. I learn so much here. Pax, I'm glad I didn't know that at the time though

[oz rider]

Hard to understand how to make children wear them, but parent not wear a helmet.

Besides the soft skulls 1, most parents are protective and have been trained that cycling is dangerous, 2, society often legislates to protect children because they are assumed to not have the reasoning skills to make informed decisions themselves (eg. regulation of cots, baby seats), and 3, children are over-representated (here) in bike stats because they are, well, kids (developing peripheral vision and judgement of speed, focused on the activity at hand, poor road skills, teenage male risk behaviours etc etc).