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Mother sends special message to teen at skatepark
Mother sends special message to teen at skatepark. Q13 FOX News.
CAMBRIDGE, Ontario -- A mother who recently took her young daughter to a rough-and-tumble skatepark learned more than she thought she would.
And her lesson had little to do with skateboard ramps.
Jeanean Thomas posted her story to Twitter earlier this month. Titled, "Dear teenage boy at the skate park," Thomas' post starts out by appearing to admonish skatepark regulars: teenage boys.
"You're probably about 15 years old," Thomas starts. "So I don't expect you to be very mature or for you to want a little girl on your skate ramp for that matter."
Thomas continues by explaining how after months of her young daughter telling her she wanted to skateboard, the mother and daughter gathered up their courage and went to the local park. Upon entering, though, the mother had different thoughts.
"So when we walked up to the skate park and saw that it was full of teenaged boys who were smoking and swearing, (my daughter) immediately wanted to turn around and go home," Thomas writes.
But the pair step into the park anyway. And as the daughter tentatively puts her board on the concrete and looks down the ramp, the unexpected happens.
Thomas explains in her full post:
The letter was picked up and published by the Camridge Times. Commenters on the newspaper's website said the story is an example of how stereotypes are often wrong.
"Awesome," commenter Wayne writes. "Thanks for showing stereotypes are never right. And teenage boys emulate the adults they see. Doesn't make them bad, just means they hate being told do as I say, not as I do."