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<blockquote data-quote="Adrift" data-source="post: 433260" data-attributes="member: 2158"><p>Hi, I haven't been on for a while, things are mostly ok but I had to weigh in on the skate crowd. My difficult child is an avid skateboarder and I would say it's been mostly a good thing. He skates because he can do it on his own time and in his own way and he IS NOT the kind of kid who functions well on a team. We have a skate park located 2 minutes from our home in a very small community and we've been to skate parks up and down the east coast. Our park is in the middle of a town park with lots of traffic and things going on. While it's not perfect, at any given moment there are adults going through to get to ball fields so that provides a lot of supervision. The best park we ever went to as far as safety goes was in the parking lot of the local police station (brilliant!) There's been a few spookey places where the parks are isolated and I've never felt good about him being there but most of the ones we've been to have been ok. There are some wonderful indoor parks in FL and in NH if anyone needs information you can PM me. I find the skater crowd to be interesting. I like the clothing choices (better than Goth LOL!) and they are usually very tolerant of the little ones who are just learning. Like anything else, it's really about individual experiences. Ours have been mostly good. I can understand though that some can be really unhealthy places. For me, it's those that are isloated. You isolate the kids and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Adrift, post: 433260, member: 2158"] Hi, I haven't been on for a while, things are mostly ok but I had to weigh in on the skate crowd. My difficult child is an avid skateboarder and I would say it's been mostly a good thing. He skates because he can do it on his own time and in his own way and he IS NOT the kind of kid who functions well on a team. We have a skate park located 2 minutes from our home in a very small community and we've been to skate parks up and down the east coast. Our park is in the middle of a town park with lots of traffic and things going on. While it's not perfect, at any given moment there are adults going through to get to ball fields so that provides a lot of supervision. The best park we ever went to as far as safety goes was in the parking lot of the local police station (brilliant!) There's been a few spookey places where the parks are isolated and I've never felt good about him being there but most of the ones we've been to have been ok. There are some wonderful indoor parks in FL and in NH if anyone needs information you can PM me. I find the skater crowd to be interesting. I like the clothing choices (better than Goth LOL!) and they are usually very tolerant of the little ones who are just learning. Like anything else, it's really about individual experiences. Ours have been mostly good. I can understand though that some can be really unhealthy places. For me, it's those that are isloated. You isolate the kids and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. [/QUOTE]
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