I used to ride a scooter when I was little but not anymore
My younger nieces and nephews love them. It is so great for young children when they are learning to balance especially the ones with 3 or 4 wheels.
Yea, I always see kids riding them around in my neighborhood, my son is only two, but I think I may get one for him
It would be great for him especially the lighter aluminum models.
He still is a bit uncoordinated so I would be worried about him falling down though 
Right, that is why safety gear is so important especially knee pads and helmets at that age.
Yea, that would be a good idea, at least until he got better at it
by a crude pivot. The construction was all wood, with 3–4 inch (75–100 mm) wheels with steel ball bearings. An additional advantage of this construction was a loud noise, just like from a "real" vehicle. An alternative construction consists of one steel clamp'm'dash on roller skate divided into front and rear parts and attached to a wood beam.
A search of the German "Bundesarchiv" for "roller" reveals both homemade and manufactured children's scooters used and even raced in Paris, Berlin and
at a fairly early age that there were terrible inequities in the education system. I lived in a good neighborhood so we had great public schools, but that was not the case in the inner city. I was shocked to see kids in this country who had so little and no access to a quality education. I often wondered what it was like for the other children to study or take entry exams such as an SAT without any sufficient resources available to them. Ever since then, I have always felt compelled to try