CAMBRIDGE, Ontario — A mother learned an unexpected lesson about stereotypes after she took her young daughter to a skatepark.
Jeanean Thomas posted shared story earlier this month. When Thomas took her daughter to Churchill Park in Cambridge, Ontario, she was initially discouraged the find the park full of teenage boys.
Thomas wrote about the experience and titled it, "Dear teenage boy at the skate park."
The letter was picked up and published by the Cambridge Times. Commenters on the newspaper’s website said the story is an example of how stereotypes are often wrong.
The letter reads: