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..and teach him how to ride a skateboard!
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A group of teens taught a 5-year-old boy with autism how to ride a skateboard on his birthday
For Carter, a 5-year-old with high functioning autism and ADHD, it might have been the perfect birthday.
The boy's mother, Kristen Braconi, took him to a skate park in South Brunswick, New Jersey, for his fifth birthday last week. As Carter was riding his scooter, a group of older kids showed up and began to teach him how to use a mini skateboard.
They showed him how to balance on it, offered encouraging words and helped him up when he fell. Later they even sang him happy birthday.
"The kids went above and beyond and that's what it was all about," said Braconi, who filmed the scene and shared it on the local community's Facebook page.
"I wanted to recognize the kids and their parents because when you can show their parents how kind and respectful they are when you aren't around you know you have done a great job!" she told CNN. "They did so much more than they knew."
Braconi says the teens did not know that Carter has autism.
"They wanted to do that for him and their kindness and inclusion without knowing anything was going on with him, it was amazing," she said, adding that Carter gained a lot of confidence from the positive social interaction.
In one of the videos, the older boy who loaned Carter the skateboard can be heard saying, "This kid's already better than me."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/01/us/boy-autism-skateboard-birthday-trnd/
CatMor
(6,212 posts)versus reading about trump doing his vicious deeds.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)of vile little trolls! Definitely the kind of story we need to hear more of.
Initech
(100,081 posts)Niagara
(7,627 posts)Love this story!
a kennedy
(29,673 posts)very uplifting story.
the_sly_pig
(741 posts)At the local skate park. Older kids always looked out for the younger ones and were very supportive and encouraging.
Luz
(772 posts)community.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Thanks for posting.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)There are more stories like this one that can be shared, I am positive. We only hear the bad ones. Great group of kids. Their parents should be proud of them all.
SallyHemmings
(1,822 posts)Never can have too much good news!
cp
(6,636 posts)We all need good stories. Helps our hearts stay whole during these dark national times. Thank you for posting this.