maybe, but my girlfriend followed the rules of the road, and some asshat in a car didn't stop when she was supposed to, and girlfriend's helmet was smashed, but she came out cognitively okay.
As a kid in a suburb, I fell off my bike or skateboard onto the concrete many times. I cut up (you extend these 3 in this order) my knees, palms, and elbows, but never once did I land on my head. Helmets are appropriate only in dangerous downtown cycling.
Are you kidding, these days "Suzy" has all kinds of options she did not have during your childhood. She can play any sport and have access to quality coaches year round. Club sports now exisit for both boys and girls. Girl likes soccer, welcome to classic soccer. Girl likes basketball, welcome to AAU or club basketball. Volleyball, dance, cheerleading, music and arts . . . access to all these things to a much higher level than in the 70's. I wouldn't want to raise a girl in the good old boys generations. And then there is this thing called Title 9 . . . girls and young females have never had it so good . . . and they still have some catching up to do before all is fair for girls and boys.
BP is clearly white. The 60's and 70's were a grand ol' time for the white man. But since then, Affirmative Action, Title 9...... the white man's power has been grasping, trying to hold all of his power, while everyone else has slowly gained more power and closed the gap on inequality! Thus, those were the good ol' days to him. What a racist/sexist/bigot! :MARIS61:
Is that what they teach your generation? Because it's a pack of lies. Except for soccer (boys) and basketball (both sexes) those were all girls' activities in high school. You should be extolling their new availability for BOYS, not girls.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh trust me, when a couple of ladies were with ABM & myself, the much prefered our options....
The saddest thing for me is kids now can't go out and play on their own, or at least it seems parents don't allow them to. When I was 11 I would ride my bike for miles across town to play with friends. No parental supervision was needed. Now it seems you can't do that without fear of someone swiping your kid. Plus I was amazed when I coached little league that most of the kids didn't even know how to throw a ball at the age of 10. Maybe that's on the kid and maybe it's on the parent, but it was kind of sad.
When I was young, school sports did not have a price attached. All kids could participate. That is no longer true, with many families unable to cover the cost.
Beautiful central Oregon has sports? Metropolitan Portland still offers school sports in which all kids can participate at an affordable price that can even be waived. On top of that, Portland and the surrounding areas provide access to sports outside of school for all kids, also including waiving fees if hardship is shown . . . with the level of coaches and commitment to the sports outside of school often being at a much higher level than what school sports can provide. If a child is into sports, they have more options now than ever before. I know Bend got rocked hard during the housing bubble burst, have sports programs and schools taken a big hit that hasn't recovered yet?
