This past week on the 31st Cast of Dads podcast, I started out ranting about a subject that is sticking in my craw. The culprit is kids’ not wearing helmets when they are riding push scooters like the Razor. I require my son to wear his helmet if the vehicle he is taming raises his head more than 24 inches off of the ground. Thus bike, scooter, skateboard and unicycle require a helmet but Green Machine and Big Wheel do not.
My logic is that a noggin cracking on the asphalt behaves the same way regardless if falls from a bike or a skateboard. The problem is that many parents in my neighborhood do not follow the same brain protecting philosophy. From my estimation roughly 50% of the kids between 4 and 10 years old do not wear helmets when riding scooters. My seven-year old son is aware of this and is beginning to ask questions. “Why do I have to wear a helmet and my buddies don’t?” I’m sure this is just the beginning of his desire to be dangerous and cool.
But I am not wavering on this one. No Helmet, No Ride!
Come on parents help me out, protect your kids BRAINS!
CC and Sass, who have older kids, had some good advice on this one. And if preventing brain injuries doesn’t float your boat, somehow we also ended up talking about technology and passing gas, not sure how that happened!
Take a listen!
Silent But Deadly
Sunday nights in the fall are a great time to record. While some of us might be sitting down to dinner, some are out looking for their kids and some are just enjoying a nice cold beer. No matter what we might be doing, we all sat down to record another fun filled episode of Cast of Dads.
Topics discussed on this episode:
* Sam Adams Oktoberfest
* Helmet Safety
* What to do when other kids are not wearing helmets?
* Seat belts
* Shark Week
* Brammo Electric Motorcycles* Chevy Volt
* Motley Crew’s Girls, Girls, Girls!
* Will your wife let you own a motorcycle?
* Sons of Anarchy
* Test Driving a Harley
* 11 Year old horror visions of a motorcycle crash
* Buying your 13 year old a Playboy subscription
* C.C. meets Jeff’s son Ethan
* Twitter Check Ins
* Social Media turn off times
* C.C.’s #140conf “I’m a Dad and Damn Proud if It!”
* Pizza Fusion
* The dangers of doing the divorce kid exchange at the same location every time.
* Kids remember everything
* Places and smells tied to memories
* Farts of funny
* Fart Battles on Howard Stern
* No more fart apps
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Cast of Dads is a group of podcasting and blogging dads who gather to gab about fatherhood. The cast of dads includes C.C. Chapman, Jeffrey Sass, Max Kalehoff, Michael Sheehan, and Brad Powell, who collectively represent 13 kids from the youngest of babies to full grown adults. Each of them brings a unique perspective to being a father.
