When the weather won’t cooperate, find something active to do indoors — like roller skating! You may not know it but skating rinks are still around. If you have a tween or early teen, it is still one place they can meet up with peers and try to find someone to make out with in a dark corner when the skate Nazi’s aren’t patrolling. It is also something you can do as a family (skating, that is, not finding someone to make out with in a dark corner). It’s affordable. It’s active. It’s a shared activity you can do together without being together the whole time. It’s tolerant of different skill levels. It’s fun when you know how to skate and it is funny when you don’t. It often requires accomplished skaters to help support the walk-skaters. You can pick up the basics fairly easily. They play cheesy music. And, there’s plenty of greasy, unhealthy food for sale. Lace up and get rolling!
