According to a story in Englands Telegraph more and more dads are taking their kids to the skateboard park and then, rather than just dropping them off, they’re dropping in.
Skateboarding may still have an edgy attitude, but it is now able to attract similar numbers of participants to traditional ball sports. The perfect time, then, for those children of the 1970s and 80s to get back on their boards. And in many cases it is the Rad Dads who are now getting those closed skateparks rebuilt. . . When I was young the only place we had to skate was a disused tennis court,’ says Christian Stevenson, 43, from the Sussex village of Cuckfield. ‘I didn’t want that for my kids, so we looked into getting a village skatepark made.’ Paid for by grants and local fundraisers, the Cuckfield Bowl, as it is known, opened in 2009.
Funny. This is going to make kids who really want to rebel sign up for Little League, just to piss their parents off.
[Link: Telegraph UK]
