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A healthy looking teen does a 360° spin in the air receiving cheers from the gathering crowd. He grins widely for today he is the king of the park. Sound intriguing? This scene represents three important advantages of a skate park. Such as, a person’s physical, social, and mental health. Physical meaning a person’s health of their body. Social meaning to socialize with friends, family, and a person’s community. Mental health meaning how healthy the mind is. Proving a skate park is by far a good construction choice for ########## and without it children’s health may be at risk.


Firstly, some children and teens don’t always socialize well. Imagine a shy girl hiding in the corner. Maybe one day she might suffer from depression or commit #######. Now imagine the same girl in a big group of friends chatting together and skateboarding. Socializing has a big impact on a person’s health and self asteem and physical activity is a great way to socialize. Yesenia ####### says, “Skateboarding to me is a great way to meet and hang out with friends.”


Besides socializing, a teen’s mental health can be improved by skateboarding. As Timothy ####### says, “Sometimes I would be so angry that I would run outside and release my anger by skateboarding or shooting hoops.” Mostly your mental health suffers from too much stress or low self asteem. A skate park can help children and teens relieve stress and when they nail a move they feel better about themselves, raising their self asteem.

Lastly, children and teen’s physical health is at risk. Why is it important to stay physically active? Well as stated in the New International Standard Medical and Health Encyclopedia, “Obesity causes over 300,000 deaths each year.” Another quote from that same source states, “A youngster who has been able to avoid physical activity by living in an elevator apartment, riding a bus to school, and watching TV after school hours instead of working or playing could be right on the button as far as weight for his height and age are concerned, but his muscular development and heart and lung capacity could be at the same time at a very low ebb.” These quotes show how your health can be affected by lack of physical activity and a skate park could provide a good amount of exercise.



Therefore, this essay shows that without a skate park children and teen’s physical, mental, and social health is at risk. Proving that a skate park is a great construction idea for #########. The trustees need to see this may be a life or death matter for some.

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