There are many things in life that I will never understand. The amount of things that I don’t understand has increased significantly since I became a mother and began to watch my kid’s choices and preferences as they got older. I couldn’t understand why my daughter wanted to wear such an ugly shirt with pants that clearly didn’t match it, and I definitely couldn’t understand it when my junior high aged son came home wanting to get his ears pierced. Being a mother definitely adds mystery to my life. Up until recently, the fact that all kids seemed to love skateboards was a mystery to me.
I began to recognize the phenomenon of skateboards when my own three children asked for them for Christmas a few years ago. I thought it was strange that they all wanted the same thing, yet when I asked them about it they said that literally everybody they knew was asking for skateboards that year. So my husband and I went out after researching the best skateboards for their ages and novice abilities, and we purchased three skateboards to place under the tree on Christmas morning.
From the moment our children opened their skateboards they were hooked....