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Kyle's bike
The story goes Kyle and a couple of neighbor boys were racing down the cul-de-sac and Kyle hit the curb. Not only did he hit the curb at full speed, he managed to get the front tire caught in the metal slats of a drainage grate, flip himself over the handle bars and land on his head on the sidewalk.
I may goof some aspects of parenting, the kids probably should take baths more often and their fingernails always need cut and does anyone manage to get enough vegetables into their children? But one thing Greg and I have actually done "right" is the kids always, always put their bike helmets on before their feet touch the pedals of their bikes.
Kyle was wearing his helmet. He is fine. I also know where and what our local children's hospital looks like now as we spent 3 hours there last night double checking he was fine. They ran an x-ray on his neck because that's the only complaint area he had, he said his head never hurt.
I'm not going to go all crazy with pro-helmet wearing lectures here but any accident that bends the metal frame of a bike like this and Kyle is as right as rain this morning (not even a scratch on the kid), I'm going to be a little rah-rah wearing helmets for awhile.
Course now I need to go buy him a new bike and helmet...
And also? I'm so not looking forward to when the kids start driving cars.
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