Are Electric Scooters For Kids A Good Idea?
Search for the term “electric scooters for kids” online, and you’ll find hundreds of different kinds of scooters kids can ride on without doing anything but starting them up. Looking at them, I couldn’t help but wonder what happened to the exercise of pushing a scooter yourself the way we did it when I was a child. With all of the news reports telling of the excessive obesity rate in children these days, it couldn’t help but make me wonder if buying electric scooters for our kids is a good thing. No matter whether they call them hoverboards, trail rippers, or go-peds, the bottom line is all the same. Instead of our children riding their bikes or pushing their scooters manually, we’re giving them the ability to ride wherever they want to go without doing any of the work. Electric scooters give kids the thrill of riding at 20 mph, which is a lot faster than they can walk or manually operate a riding toy. If you were a child and had to run to the store for Mom, which would you pick? Your
