Should I let my 13 year old son buy a dirt bike?

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darcy

we live in the city but he has a few friends that ride them and own land not to far away. He had an accident on his push bike last year which caused a blood clot. But that was from doing jumps. i just don't want to have that quilt of him getting servilely injured again. He said he will only be doing trail riding or farm, and hes willing to pay for all saftey gear and bike.

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If your kid has an interest in motorcycles it may never go away. Studies (Hurt report and others) prove that those who ride and live are the ones who start young on small trail bikes and moved up gradually through the ranks. Sadly, if you do not let him learn the right way now, he is several times more likely to suffer serious injury should he get to be 30 and then buy himself a big street bike without having the proper experience. However, with the proper training and gradual steps up in motorcycle size he has a 98% chance of riding for an entire lifetime without a bad accident.

I MADE both of my kids ride dirt bikes often at a young age under my watchful eye though neither showed any special desire to do so. I couldn't live with myself if they died on a Harley 10 years from now and I hadn't done this. Both are very capable and responsible now and show no tendency towards riding dangerously or taking silly chances. Both now enjoy it and enjoy the time we spend together doing it too.

I say go for it, but consider getting one for yourself too so you can be there to supervise for a while. At least keep a watchful eye on him for a month or 2 to make sure he isn't too much of a "show off" with daredevil tendencies. After that, turn him loose and let him spread his riding wings on the farm with his buddies.

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I want to get healthier. I want to live and seem my kids get married and all that stuff. I also want to live a life they can model themselves. I do not work out and I have issues with food. Yes, I am fat. I do not want to be. I am working and struggling with this everyday. I always plan to get up and do SOMETHING that will be considered exercise, but then I don't. What are things that you do to help motivate you on the days you really don't want to do it.

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I changed the way I eat , less sugar , more fresh fruit & vegetables . .
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Got 6 kids & 14 grand kids .I want to see grow up , like you .

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