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Safe Bicycling for Young and Older Children - Tips
Although it's still cold out there, it will get warmer soon being the perfect time for children to ride their bikes. If you live in one of those lucky cities like Washington, DC, where it was Spring time this past weekend, chidren of all ages where riding their bikes.
When a child receives a first bicycle, a lifelong pattern of vehicle operation has begun. Parents need to be aware that a bicycle is not a toy, but a speedy means of transportation, which, by the way, is subject to the same laws as motor vehicles. This is way, it is important to teach safe bicyling to you children and have them properly trained.
Here are some tips on training your children on how to operate a bicycle and safe bicycling recommended by the American Academy Pediatrics:
- Until the child has been observed to ride confidently and to follow basic rules of the road, riding must be restricted to sidewalks, paths and driveways.
- A child demostrates basic competence when he/she is able to:
- stop the bike quickly by using the brakes.
- start riding without wobbling out of a path one yard wide.
- stop and dismount without falling.
- ride in a straight line near the curb.
- The most important rules of the road are:
- stop at intersections where the walk, driveway, or alley intersect a street. According to American Academy Pediatrics, 75% of child bike-accident deaths occure where driveways, alleys and streets intersect.)
- ride to the right of the road, with traffic.
- do not ride at or after dusk.
- obey all traffic signals and stop signs. Wait for green light.
- Children who ride unsafely should be disciplined so as to establish the significant and real concern of parents. Prohibiting the use of a bike is an appropriate disciplinary step.
- The following factors are frequently associated with preventable injuries:
- inadequate rider visibility
- riding a borrowed bike
- riding double
- not using a protective helmet or the wrong size of helmet.
For more information about wearing a helment, please visit www.helmets.org and http://www.aap.org/family/bicycle.htm.
Safety is our #1 concern for our children!
- The Moms Buzz
source and image: www.aap.org
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