PSA - Heelys Roller Shoes

[citysherry]

I didn't read her posts that way... I read it to say that she raised her 10 year old with enough sense to use heelies appropriately and that not all parents have done the same fine job with their kids...:shrug:

Ok but, IMO using heelies in a restaurant is not an appropriate use.

 

[EmilyP.Deigh]

I don't think you lack parenting skills. I think you lack common sense for allowing your child to wear them in a restaurant. What are the safety rules you have? Heeling with a DS in a restaurant is okay?

What is DS? I go to another forum where it means "darling son."

 

[itsbob]

Do they make "heelies" in baby sizes?? I think watching Nicholas rolling through the house, or Ruby's would be HILARIOUS!!

Want him to get out of a room.. just a little 'push' will do it!!

 

[BadGirl]

Do they make "heelies" in baby sizes?? I think watching Nicholas rolling through the house, or Ruby's would be HILARIOUS!!

Want him to get out of a room.. just a little 'push' will do it!!

He won't be wearing any Heelies, than you very much.

 

[Masey]

What is DS? I go to another forum where it means "darling son."

:shrug: maybe diet soda?

 

[Nickel]

What is DS? I go to another forum where it means "darling son."

The only DS I can think of is a Nintendo DS, but I can't imagine why someone would need to take one to a restaurant, much less the bathroom of a restaurant.

 

[nomoney]

The only DS I can think of is a Nintendo DS, but I can't imagine why someone would need to take one to a restaurant, much less the bathroom of a restaurant.

I don't see why taking a DS to a restaurant is a problem , but I to am confused about why it would need to go to the restroom with her

 

[Nickel]

I don't see why taking a DS to a restaurant is a problem , but I to am confused about why it would need to go to the restroom with her

I don't see taking it to the restaurant as a "problem", I just don't see why someone would do it.

 

[BS Gal]

Until you have tried them...don't judge. My 10 y/o wears them, and the ground clearance is so minute it's unreal. She certainly can't "whiz" around, her heels or toes would catch on the ground, nor does she have the desire to "whiz". She uses the same common sense rules she would use if she were WALKING in the restaurant. I don't allow her to run to the potty in a restaurant, nor is she allowed to even go anywhere alone at all. Hence, she heelies at the same speed i walk. And I'm not going to run through a parking lot where cars are moving. Neither does she. She sticks with me.

For goodness sake, since some parents are irresponsible (and that stands true in every situation) don't penalize those parents who DO keep a hawks eye on their kids and whose Kids DO use the common sense god gave them.

Duh. Would she have fallen on her back in a restaurant if she didn't have her heelies on?

 

[BS Gal]

What is DS? I go to another forum where it means "darling son."

I think it may be diet soda. Not sure.

 

[happyappygirl]

Duh. Would she have fallen on her back in a restaurant if she didn't have her heelies on?

Maybe I fall down stairs and smash my snoot so i have to have several surgeries to correct it, and i bust every ligament in one knee hopping up onto my horse.

A DS is a Nintendo thingie. She takes it into a restaurant because she doesn't have a sibling to interact with while waiting for her food to arrive, before that thing we played cards or football with that triangle of paper or a penny. She's also able to multi-task...hence the heelie-ing and DSing at the same time. So that should tell ya she doesn't Zoom-Zoom-Zoom.

Thank you Kwillia. That's exactly what i'm saying. My little one would never be rude or do something that would endanger herself or others. But these heelies, they're not designed for SPEED for goodness sake. The ground clearance is almost nil when they're in use, and it takes real skill and balance to use them-it takes a tiny tilt of the foot either way to cause you to fall face forwards or backwards because the single wheel is set into the heel of the shoe. Rollerblades or skateboards go much faster, they have a higher ground clearance and should only in designated areas.

 

[happyappygirl]

I don't see why taking a DS to a restaurant is a problem , but I to am confused about why it would need to go to the restroom with her

are you saying you don't sneak a magazine in on occasion?

:shrug: i think it's because she doesn't want her dad to use it while she's gone

 

[itsbob]

The last few times that I've been to a public store (grocery store, BRU, etc), there are kids going up and down the aisles as fast as they can with these dumb shoes. I keep waiting for one of them to bust their azz on the floor, or running into someone and knocking them down (especially an elderly person). I think there's a time and place for those types of things, and a public place like that shouldn't be one of them. How many times have you seen a kid in roller skates at a grocery store?

Of course, I blame the parents because each time I've seen this happen, the parents aren't paying any attention at all as to what their kids are doing. :shrug:

If I was a kid I'd love to have a pair.. can you remember being a kid?

Hell, I'm 44 and I think I'd like a pair.

I had parents that really used their imagiation when it came to christmas and birthday presents.. I got all the cool (well, cheap and cool) pogo sticks, unicycles, stilts, skateboards (before skate boards were cool). I'm sure if I was still a kid a pair of these would have been uner the tree. I would find the steepest longest hill I could find, been in the ER, and with my arm in a sling I'd have been back out on 'em the next day. My parents would have shook their heads, taken me to the ER, whined about me ruining another new shirt, or scuffing up a pair of Toughskins (you just couldn't destroy a pair of toughskins) and went shopping for whatever other evil, hurt your kid kind toy they could find.

I think it's a shame when a kid makes it to High School and has never seen the inside of an ER except for the flue (another parent story about ER uses). I've had Tonka dump trucks send me there, a chair in Sunday School, a freshly waxed floor, cool slippery socks, and a radiator did it next, falling out of trees.. bike/car accident.. tree limb stuck under the knee cap, wait, that didn't rate an ER visit, mom fixed me up.. gravel abrasion that tore a flap of skin off down to the knee cap.. broken shoulder from being stupid on the bike.. Ruined shirt from taking the skateboard down the steepest hill in Derry NH.. ohhh, and the finger I had almost cut off by falling on an empty beer bottle while wrestling my much older much bigger cousin.

I honestly can't remember a whole week going by as a kid that I didn't have a scab somewhere to pick.. elbows, knees.. palms.. Let your kid be a kid, buy them a pair of Heelies LET them hurt themselves.

At least 30 years from now they will remember the day in the restaurant when they were heeling back from the John and fell.. instead of remembering the same day as the day they defeated the last level on Halo!

 

[itsbob]

Oh, and I forgot.. just two years ago at the age of 42, falling off of my sons six foot unicycle, that I bought him for his birthday. I thought I broke both of my wrists. Now THAT would be something to talk about over a beer.. with both arms in casts!!

Nicholas is following in my footsteps. He currently looks like a prizefighter after going ten rounds. He looks like a happy active little boy!! Scabs on his lip, nose, cheek and eyebrow.

 

[Speedy70]

Maybe I fall down stairs and smash my snoot so i have to have several surgeries to correct it, and i bust every ligament in one knee hopping up onto my horse.

A DS is a Nintendo thingie. She takes it into a restaurant because she doesn't have a sibling to interact with while waiting for her food to arrive, before that thing we played cards or football with that triangle of paper or a penny. She's also able to multi-task...hence the heelie-ing and DSing at the same time. So that should tell ya she doesn't Zoom-Zoom-Zoom.

Thank you Kwillia. That's exactly what i'm saying. My little one would never be rude or do something that would endanger herself or others. But these heelies, they're not designed for SPEED for goodness sake. The ground clearance is almost nil when they're in use, and it takes real skill and balance to use them-it takes a tiny tilt of the foot either way to cause you to fall face forwards or backwards because the single wheel is set into the heel of the shoe. Rollerblades or skateboards go much faster, they have a higher ground clearance and should only in designated areas.

My husband doesn't let his kids bring their electronic devices into a restaurant. Children need to learn to interact at the table (i.e. conversation). Not have their heads buried in a game.

 

[Speedy70]

If I was a kid I'd love to have a pair.. can you remember being a kid?

Hell, I'm 44 and I think I'd like a pair.

I had parents that really used their imagiation when it came to christmas and birthday presents.. I got all the cool (well, cheap and cool) pogo sticks, unicycles, stilts, skateboards (before skate boards were cool). I'm sure if I was still a kid a pair of these would have been uner the tree. I would find the steepest longest hill I could find, been in the ER, and with my arm in a sling I'd have been back out on 'em the next day. My parents would have shook their heads, taken me to the ER, whined about me ruining another new shirt, or scuffing up a pair of Toughskins (you just couldn't destroy a pair of toughskins) and went shopping for whatever other evil, hurt your kid kind toy they could find.

I think it's a shame when a kid makes it to High School and has never seen the inside of an ER except for the flue (another parent story about ER uses). I've had Tonka dump trucks send me there, a chair in Sunday School, a freshly waxed floor, cool slippery socks, and a radiator did it next, falling out of trees.. bike/car accident.. tree limb stuck under the knee cap, wait, that didn't rate an ER visit, mom fixed me up.. gravel abrasion that tore a flap of skin off down to the knee cap.. broken shoulder from being stupid on the bike.. Ruined shirt from taking the skateboard down the steepest hill in Derry NH.. ohhh, and the finger I had almost cut off by falling on an empty beer bottle while wrestling my much older much bigger cousin.

I honestly can't remember a whole week going by as a kid that I didn't have a scab somewhere to pick.. elbows, knees.. palms.. Let your kid be a kid, buy them a pair of Heelies LET them hurt themselves.

At least 30 years from now they will remember the day in the restaurant when they were heeling back from the John and fell.. instead of remembering the same day as the day they defeated the last level on Halo!

Dude, all I was saying is there is a place for those shoes, and a public place like a restaurant, grocery store, etc is not the place. If they want to skate around their home, basement, sidewalk, let them have at it!

 

[BadGirl]

Dude, all I was saying is there is a place for those shoes, and a public place like a restaurant, grocery store, etc is not the place. If they want to skate around their home, basement, sidewalk, let them have at it!

I totally agree with you.

Kids should have fun with their toys, but not at the risk of someone else getting hurt.

 

[Masey]

Dude, all I was saying is there is a place for those shoes, and a public place like a restaurant, grocery store, etc is not the place. If they want to skate around their home, basement, sidewalk, let them have at it!

Exactly! I don't have a problem with kids having these shoes either but parents need to make sure that their kids use them in appropriate areas only.

 

[itsbob]

Dude, all I was saying is there is a place for those shoes, and a public place like a restaurant, grocery store, etc is not the place. If they want to skate around their home, basement, sidewalk, let them have at it!

As long as they aren't speeding around on them I don't see a problem with it. I see kids out all the time with them on, gliding down an aisle at the grocery store, or gliding through a parking lot and SMILING. They aren't grinding on a picnic table, or skating off of the roof of someone's house, let them have their fun. They're KIDS!!

Me and my son would go to Solomons Island and take our Unicylces on the boardwalk.. You know, where it says: "No Biking, No Roller Blading, No SkateBoarding, No Swimming, No Diving, No Crabbing, No Fishing.. Enjoy Your stay on the island." It's all fun, they're kids not congressmen, let them have their fun.

 

[itsbob]

I totally agree with you.

Kids should have fun with their toys, but not at the risk of someone else getting hurt.

We need to go to Wal-Mart after work, get little man some heelies..