kids – wear helmets and seatbelts

Parents worry about:

Kidnapping
School snipers
Terrorists
Dangerous strangers
Drugs

They shouldn’t.

… how do children really get hurt or killed?

Car accidents
Homicide (usually committed by a person who knows the child, not a stranger)
Abuse
Suicide
Drowning

… making kids wear protective gear and buckle up in the car cuts kids’ chances of death by 90 percent and their chances of serious injury by 78 percent. …

NPR – 5 Worries Parents Should Drop, And 5 They Shouldn’t

I’ve always said that kids are more at risk driving to the gym, than at the gym.

(via the new Oakville Men’s Gymnastics blog)