Weekly portion of Simon and Caitlin

[oksani]

1. Valentine caused a massive chocolate fall out over our house
Святой Валентин завалил нас шоколадом.


2.  Katie came home wearing something completely weird.
Катя пришла домой непойми в чем.


3. Running to Simon's class
Бежим в Сенькин класс


4. Daycare buddies.
Соратники


5. Dropping off Katie
Отвожу Катю.


6.   I tripped and fell, should I cry now?
Я тут споткнулась и упала. Плакать, или никто не заметил?


7.  Ballerina in training
Балеринка


8.  I have breakfast now, you may go
Завтрак дали, можешь идти.


9. Fit for Woodstock
Хиппушка


10.  Watching Monsters Inc.
Смотрим Монстров.


11.  Learning process
Осваиваем самокат


12. Let me show you how it's done
Смотри как надо!


13 Stomping rocket
Не знаю как эта игрушка по русски называется.


14 It fliiiies
Но она летает


15.  Little biker
Маленький велосипедист


16. Biking with mommy
Ездим с мамой


17. Good bye
До свидания

Comments

[chephy.livejournal.com]

I don't think anything is "killing off" cycling -- if anything, it's on the rise.

However, helmet laws doubtlessly work agains cycling popularity. In several places there've been sharp declines in cycling following helmet law introductions. Some places recovered better, some not at all (there may be a correlation between recovery rates and strictness of enforcement).

However, it's not just the laws themselves. The whole fear-mongering helmet propaganda that paints cycling as this dangerous activity requiring specialized equipment is _part_ of why it is not more popular than it is. The only piece of advice the fear-mongerers give you is preaching the "Always wear a helmet mantra" over and over and over. Of course, when people look at cars on the road and then at a fragile piece of styrofoam, they kind of realize that the protection offered by the helmet is really really limited. Yet, they are convinced that helmets are an absolute necessary (clearly that must be because cycling is very dangerous), so they decide they'd just rather not do it altogether.

Of course, proper education, roads, parking, showers etc. would do a lot more to both promote cycling and increase its safety. And that's another reason the helmet thing makes me so sad -- because instead of focussing on all those other things, the powers that be decide that they want to "do something" about "cycling safety", so they're just going to... introduce a helmet law, or talk to kids in school about helmets, or give out free helmets and so on and so forth ad naseum. It's just so easy, so non-controversial (no parking or road space taken away from the allmighty car!), and so in-line with the "safety"-obsessed (note the "") North American culture, that you can get away with doing this useless bit and pretending you "did something for cycling safety in your community". *groan*