Boys Will Be Boys....Sometimes Forever Apparently

Since my two youngest had the day off from school (some sort of teacher learning day??), I took them to a new skateboard park that we discovered near our home. They were in seventh heaven (I, however, was only in about first heaven because it was rather cold, and though my book was good, after two hours I'd had enough already.)

What was interesting was that of the approximately 30 guys skateboarding (and the one rather cute chicky), only maybe 8 of them were 14 and under. The rest of them looked to be in their 20s and a couple of them even older. It was mid-day, 12:30-ish and on.....why weren't these guys working? Or in school? There they were, hanging around, sitting against the wall, watching their friends, occasionally skateboarding, sitting back down. Hours of this. It didn't seem to be the pool from which to pick the next rocket scientists really. However, that is just a surface observation, and I'm sure many of them are quite smart. Some of them were even good at skateboarding. And all of them seemed very nice. They were friendly to my boys and talked to them as equals. I admit, however, to having strong feelings along this line: I hope my boys aren't spending their days skateboarding when they're that age. Please let them be pursuing something more "meaningful", more intellectually stimulating.

Does that make me a snob? *sigh* Probably.