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Message: [QUOTE="Chili, post: 645135, member: 29892"] It's unfortunate that your wife has decided to use the children as a weapon in the proceedings in a thinly veiled guise of doing what's best for their safety. These kind of ploys always seem to cause bitterness and resentment down the road from all parties involved. More on topic now the subject of allowing your son to ride and or race. My son has participated in baseball, soccer and still participates in hockey and racing MX. While injuries in MX are a known risk they are certainly not out of line with participation in other sports. With that being said I'd like to focus on the Family aspect of racing and the nature of the environment your son will be immersed in at the track. With all the other sports my son has been involved in none has had the impact on our family life like racing, we now spend more time together as a family (i.e. every weekend) as we camp out Saturdays in the pits before our Sunday races. With his other sports we would drive him to the field or arena stay to watch his game and then drive him home but our involvement was minimal at best but at the race track the family is a team and we enjoy our time together functioning as that team. As for the environment to expand more on oldguys comments I have never meet a more respectful group of young adults involved in any other sport like I see every weekend at the MX track. I never worry about my son at the track as no matter who he is with it will never be the "wrong" crowd. The sport teaches maturity and sportsmanship. One of the first comments I made to my wife about racing was how everyone seems to get along. The racers are out banging bars for a position for a 20 minute moto and then come off the track and high five each other on a great race you see this in very few other sports from young adults. Hopefully you and your wife can come to an agreement on this issue as well as the many more that are sure to pop up in the next few years without using your children as bargaining tools or weapons in the process. I wish you luck. [/QUOTE]

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