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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e25c831$0$2937$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Should my son wear a cycle helmet? Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:08:49 +0100 References: <4aCdneFpYaC6KbjTnZ2dnUVZ8tGdnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4aCdneFpYaC6KbjTnZ2dnUVZ8tGdnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 3b0455a4.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=Tm@nC35O5G\ZhEmRS@T;C_YjZGX^207P[`l5a4fId]IFYkSLh6`eW1RYmX-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 1563 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:817719

On 19/07/2011 17:43, Simon Mason wrote: > The father of a 3 year old boy mulls over the question. > But being a science editor, he can see through the spin for himself and > thus writes a very balanced and fair-minded blog since he has no axe to > grind and no hidden agenda. > > http://hanlonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/07/should-my-son-wear-a-cycle-helmet.html

If you had teenage sons (say, two of them), would you encourage them to wear helmets, discourage them, or leave it up to them (in which case what advice would you give them)?