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<blockquote data-quote="mrsammler" data-source="post: 426945"><p>I think the skateboarder social culture has changed dramatically since my teen years in the late 70s, when the skateboarder kids were often nice boys who had simply chosen this as a primary pastime but were good students, varsity athletes, college-bound, etc. Somewhere along the way since then it became the pot-smoking, druggie, rule- and law-breaker crowd. In my family difficult child's social crowd, with MANY kids with CD in it, it seems like fully 80% or more are just amoral, druggie punks. It's a real chicken or egg riddle: do the bad kids gravitate toward skateboarding, or does exposure to the bad kids in skateboarding breed more bad kids? I do charge skateboarding with drawing kids away from healthy and positively socializing activities like organized sports--that's not skateboarding's fault intrinsically (you could say the same about the graphic novel/comic book crowd, the bookish kids who stay home and read a lot, and so on), but it does seem to draw kids into the CD trough--or maybe just collect them in an identifiable social group. I don't know why, but it seems to be directly correlative to at least pot-smoking, and of course that routinely leads to other, worse misbehaviors. </p><p></p><p>I know this: if either of my sons had ever fallen into the skateboarder crowd in their teen years, and I knew then what I know now, I would've been very concerned. And I had a skateboard and, while not fanatic about it, did enjoy skateboarding in junior high and occasionally in high school, before tennis took over as my primary recreational interest. But those were very different times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrsammler, post: 426945"] I think the skateboarder social culture has changed dramatically since my teen years in the late 70s, when the skateboarder kids were often nice boys who had simply chosen this as a primary pastime but were good students, varsity athletes, college-bound, etc. Somewhere along the way since then it became the pot-smoking, druggie, rule- and law-breaker crowd. In my family difficult child's social crowd, with MANY kids with CD in it, it seems like fully 80% or more are just amoral, druggie punks. It's a real chicken or egg riddle: do the bad kids gravitate toward skateboarding, or does exposure to the bad kids in skateboarding breed more bad kids? I do charge skateboarding with drawing kids away from healthy and positively socializing activities like organized sports--that's not skateboarding's fault intrinsically (you could say the same about the graphic novel/comic book crowd, the bookish kids who stay home and read a lot, and so on), but it does seem to draw kids into the CD trough--or maybe just collect them in an identifiable social group. I don't know why, but it seems to be directly correlative to at least pot-smoking, and of course that routinely leads to other, worse misbehaviors. I know this: if either of my sons had ever fallen into the skateboarder crowd in their teen years, and I knew then what I know now, I would've been very concerned. And I had a skateboard and, while not fanatic about it, did enjoy skateboarding in junior high and occasionally in high school, before tennis took over as my primary recreational interest. But those were very different times. [/QUOTE]
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