Parents Harass you abotu skating?

[StevoElSupremo]

does anyone else here have parents that bug the hell out of you because you skate?, like do they tell you that you should spend your time doing something more creative, or learn somthing that will take you somewhere in life?

if you do, what do you say back to them to make them stop buggin you?

and if you think this threads stupid I dont want any flaming only an intelligent response or at least half intelligent

[Blind Sheppard]

my parents support me because i'm doing something which doesn't involve them having to drive me everywhere and i pay for it myself.

[Dookie416]

my parents support me, but i'll try and help. maybe you could show them that everyone is different, and this is what you like to do, and show them that they dont even support their own son's interest, or if you have a brother doing sports you can say "why do you support him but not me" or whatever, try those.

[Galadar]

they just hate it if i roll my ankle or whatnot.

i really try to hide injuries.

[NoneMoreBlack]

They hate it when i get injured... but other than that theyre supportive.

[MattC]

They support me except if I get injuryed.

[bmmetcalf]

They hate who I skate with sometimes. They forget when they talk shit on them that they are my freinds and I get pissed off. They also dont like it when I get hurt.

[lem201314]

they just hate it if i roll my ankle or whatnot.

i really try to hide injuries.

me too.....

[Snaker]

My parents don't understand why I would do something that hurts me almost everytime I do it, and still enjoy it. But, they treat me as an adult and don't really give a shit.

[pop38]

My mom supports me, even when I get injured.

[Griptape Flip]

I dunno, my parents don't really like it, and they want me to stop. But, they're not telling me I gotta stop, but whenever I get messed up, they're always freaking out. But, I can deal with it, it's all good.

[tallbus1]

my parents are so paranoid they wont even let me they are all like "i dont like the people yhey hank out with" or "i dont want you getting hurt"...

[DarkRider13]

does anyone else here have parents that bug the hell out of you because you skate?, like do they tell you that you should spend your time doing something more creative, or learn somthing that will take you somewhere in life?

if you do, what do you say back to them to make them stop buggin you?

and if you think this threads stupid I dont want any flaming only an intelligent response or at least half intelligent

My parents ALWAYS do that! If I tell them something that has to do with skateboarding they just tell me off and tell me that I'm too into skateboarding and that I need to think more about school. I just tell them that they're too into school and they need to think more about skateboarding and we'd work out just fine. It works for me, the subject always comes up again, but it works temporarily.

Good Luck with it anyways.

[Poser Park]

my parents are so paranoid they wont even let me they are all like "i dont like the people yhey hank out with" or "i dont want you getting hurt"...


Your parents sound like overprotective Christians. Mine use to be just like that.

[flipsk8er1728]

They support me except if I get injuryed.Really? My parents just say "It'll be better by the time your married"

[bmmetcalf]

Your parents sound like overprotective Christians. Mine use to be just like that.
Ya untill your murdered them and stuffed them under MY bed you asshole!

[sk8ercam]

yea my mum dosnt care unless im going by myself somewhere far away then she thinks ill get stolen and stuff lol

[Pinto]

My parents don't care, but my mom told me she doesn't want me to be 30 and still skating. She said I should be going to a 9-5 job in a suit. I couldn't help but laugh.

[crazylou]

My parents don't. I just bought a speed demons deck and ventures and they were whinging about why i buy skateboard stuff when i should be saving up.

[loganownzj00]

My mom and dad get pissed off everytime I need a new pair of shoes.

They're just like "WHAT? ANOTHER PAIR? IT'S ONLY BEEN 2 MONTHS."

Then they're like, "See these? I've worn these shoes everyday for 2 years, and I take care of them."

They're really ignorant of the fact that griptape exists.

[zakkwylde786]

Ya my parents get pissed when i say I need a new deck. On the other hand I got my first encounter with the cops wich is pretty cool cause me and my friend were skating a 8 stair at a church so the church guy called the cops and so we were getting stalked my about 5 cops but they never caught us cause we hid out a target and then the dollar store.And went to walmart and got 25 cent soda!

[crazy_dave]

My parents dont really care. They didn't like it at first cause my bro broke is phemur skating and i started like the week after, but they dont mind now.

[sde780]

my dad hates it when i skate.

i skated for 3 hours at a friends house today n he took my NEW 1 day old deck and put it in his office, where i cant get at it.

he said that i was hooked on skating like a drug adicts hooked on drugs


he pisses me off n i cant do shit about it

[NoneMoreBlack]

^^^ Tell him youll become a real drug addict if he deosnt let you skate because its your life not his. Tell him to stop being an ignorant prick.

[Jesse's Playtoy]

my parents have never said anything to me about my skateboarding. but whenever they start bitching ill just go outside and go to my friends house for a while. then ill just go home and try to avoid them till they forget.

[Le_MoNaDe]

my parents dont care.... better me to be outside then inside...

[edward]

i dont' know whether they like it or not, but they've always supported me in it. they know its something that i really love and they think its better than sitting around inside. whenever i would ask for a deck or something like that my mom would just say oh well, you dont' play any other team sports so we don't have to pay for new ice skates or football pads. plus they like the fact that i'm now sponsored, i/they don't have to pay for decks anymore so thats cool.

just tell your parents how much you really like it and say they should be happy for you. and really its not that much more dangerous than other sports, maybe a lot of cuts and bruises but there have been surveys showing that hockey is the most dangerous sport with having like 14 out of every 100 sports injuries, then it was soccer i think with like every 11/100, football was 3rd with 9/100 and skateboarding was actually around 14th or something with every 0.3/100, it was even beat out by fishing which came in at #9 i think. this was out of every 100 sports injuries that required medical attention. i don't remember the exact stats because i read the artical a while ago but those are pretty close.

do they tell you that you should spend your time doing something more creative
what?!?!? skateboarding is all about being creative, its whatever you can think up to do on a board, then you go try it. its deffinetly a lot more creative than throwing a ball through a hoop.

[sk8_rat09]

My parents are strongly against skateboarding. They tried to ban skateboarding in our town once. They told me when I am 18 that I "am" going to quit skateboarding. I told them " I'll keep doing it as long as I want!" So I moved in at a friend's house and we skate from sunrise to sunset.

[Kam1kaze]

Your parents sound like overprotective Christians. Mine use to be just like that.

My moms an overprotective christian. She wont even let me go to a skatepark with 3 or 4 friends -.- . My dad lets me go to a skatepark with like 1 friend, but i dont live with him :(

[WakeBake&Skate]

Nope my parents have never said nothing to me about skating! But my mom isnt really strict or anything anyways.

[WakeBake&Skate]

My parents are strongly against skateboarding. They tried to ban skateboarding in our town once. They told me when I am 18 that I "am" going to quit skateboarding. I told them " I'll keep doing it as long as I want!" So I moved in at a friend's house and we skate from sunrise to sunset.
hell yeah dude!!!

[China Skate]

I don't know about my mom, but my dad doesn't give a shit about anything I do.

[novascotiaskate]

Everything is good till a bone breaks. But just another half a year and I'm out.

[Sk8 Till Death]

does anyone else here have parents that bug the hell out of you because you skate?, like do they tell you that you should spend your time doing something more creative, or learn somthing that will take you somewhere in life?
Dude, back in the day, skating was a very creative sport. Now that practically all variations of the ollie and other tricks have been invented, it's just a matter of learning these tricks. But skating's still creative, I bet any skater that could grind could look at a rail and imagine themselve grinding on it, or any other possible rails. Ya, my parent's don't care.

[Adioskater13]

They hate who I skate with sometimes. They forget when they talk shit on them that they are my freinds and I get pissed off. They also dont like it when I get hurt.

Yeah me too...some of the people i hang with smoke weed so they assume that i smoke too.

[rodneymullen123]

Not my parents, they encourage me, its old ladies walking back from farmfoods that tell me off for jumping about like a spring chicken

[adrianlopezpie]

no man that blows my parents just get pissed whenver i go straight to the university after school and go skate they get p.o

[skaterat]

Way back in the day my dad bought me my first skate and was supportive. In turn I'm totally behind my son skating and like to keep him stoked with new gear and what not.

[whitepanda65]

They always tell me to do something creative and not waste my time with skateing.But i tell them its what i like to do it makes me happy and i enjoy it.

[edward]

^hahaha, skateboarding is 100% CREATIVITY. skateboarding is only limited by your imagination.

[emericaxskater]

my parents like that i have found something i love but they hate the people i do it with. My brother also skated and when he was a senior it was almost all he did and my parents dont wanna have that happen to me

[sk8ter 58]

My dad used to be a cop and is a retired military. And my mom does along the same lines of my dad. So ya. When I got my first skate shoes my dad said "oh sh## my son is a skateboarder". So I got it bad. And I would break decks easily because I was learning and skating hard. Cha ching. And I've racked up the emergency room bills. One that got over 1000 dollars. So ya you can say my parents bug the crap out of me with you should concentrate on football ot baseball { I play for my school) and junk like that but they still buy the stuff so I don't really care.

[Mindcrime]

My dad could care less and one time my mom said the local skate shop smelled bad. That's about as bad as it gets.

[FacadeOfReality]

Dad yes, mom no.

I sware, my mom had to pick me up one day at this skatepark camp and I was going off a kickbox that couldn't be more than three feet high and she was on the other side of the gate saying, "Aaah! Chris, don't go so fast you may kill yourself! it is time to go!" -.-


My dad wants me to go to the skatepark more often cause...I'm not very athletic at all. It is good exercise for me.

[Nerds Can Skate]

well my friends mom is real strict she doesnt wanna see even bruises. but, my parents wont really care unless its like a broken bone or sht

[Wood Pusher]

yeah man^^ same here

[frinklinduds]

my parents are cool with it, especiallly with contests

[Pinto]

My parents give me money to go to this indoor skatepark, but I end up not going and blow all the money.

[Ramp]