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Skating Rink

Portrays a teenage boy whose stammering and consequent difficulty in communicating his feelings were brought on by his mother's death. Shows how his skating gives him a way of demonstrating his love to his family. An ABC Afterschool Special. Tuck Faraday is a teenager whose stammering and consequent difficulties in communicating were brought on by the death of his mother when he was a small boy. Tuck develops confidence and a sense of achievement by learning to skate well and by becoming close to the couple who own and run the nearby skating rink. Discusses the problems stemming from a lack of self-confidence and the inability to express real feelings; acquiring a means of self-expression and the support of strong friendships gains for Tuck self-confidence and new ways of relating to others., A shy teenage boy, lacking in self confidence and handicapped by an awkward stammer, has problems relating to friends and family until one day he discovers an aptitudee for ice skating which opens the way to new relationships and personal fulfillment.
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Tells the story of a teen-age boy whose stammering and difficulty in communicating his feelings and thoughts were brought on by the death of his mother when he was a small boy. Shows how he develops confidence and a sense of achievement through ice skating.
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