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Tips For Getting Your Child to Wear a Helmet
- Let your child help pick out the helmet
- Help your child practice putting on the helmet until he or she can buckle the straps easily.
- Always insist your child wear the helmet.
- Make the rule - no helmet, no ride. Anyone can get hurt anywhere at any time.
- When you ride together, wear your own helmet.
- Your own good example can make a big difference in encouraging your child to wear one.
- Praise your child each time he/she wears the helmet.
- Begin the helmet habit with the first tricycle or bicycle. Then it will become a habit as your child grows.
- Encourage other parents to buy helmets for their children.
- Making helmets common is the best way to decrease the feeling of being "different."
- Remember that your child's helmet is generally meant to withstand one accident - after that it should be replaced.
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