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Extreme sports and kids... 20-May-2015 At 8:58:15 PM Miguel75

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Here's an interesting article about kids and extreme sports;

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/magazine/is-it-wrong-to-let-children-do-extreme-sports.html?_r=1

As a parent who takes the kids to the skate park, and climbing amongst other super rad things I found it an interesting read. My son broke his wrist at the Newport bowl not too long ago and I still feel like it was somehow my doing and I reckon I'd definitely review my preferred family activities if my kids suffered multiple spleen ruptures and 10 concussions... I reckon they're too young, and have too long a life to put up with the residual effects of such brutal injuries. In saying that, I 'd love to be able to skate like the kids in the article...