Believe it or not, "skate mates" are counter intuitive to learning how to skate! Just like if you always held your little guys, or little gals, hand or they always held on to the wall. They'll never learn how to balance on skates on their own, unless or until they ditch the 'skate mate', or your hand, or the wall! My personal recommendation would be to, not use a "skate mate", not hold their hand, and keep them off the wall. Even better, enroll them in skating lessons! I do believe coachlite has open skating lesson sessions where the lil ones can learn skating! Yes, they will fall, yes they will get right back up. If you wish to protect them from said falls, from serious injury, the number one skating related injury is *wrists*, making wrist guards the most invaluable piece of protection equipment! In my opinion the next most important, in order would be, knee pads, then elbow pads, and lastly helmets.
sorry we do not. we find them unsafe for roller skating. we do have classes to teach little ones the proper way to skate.
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