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This particular park is well monitored by parents; it's not just a skateboard park. About 10 years ago there was a growing problem and parents did start avoiding going there with their children, but the community got together and now even if high school students are seen so much as smoking there the police will chase them out. If middle school students are caught smoking or doing anything consider inappropriate for their age, the police will contact their parents. Basically now kids know that the park is not a place to be doing things they don't want their parents to know about.

This is the first year where her social circle of friends has started to grow beyond her immediate classmates. Until now interacting with older kids has been limited mainly to older siblings of her friends with parents in the home or with girls she know from gymnastics.