Posted on 06/14/2010 6:58:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You can do a lot of growing up sailing solo, without getting other people to pay for a boat so you can try to sail around the world and set an age record that no one recognizes anyways...
Any sympathy I had for them evaporated when they asked for donations to recover ‘Abby’s boat’ while saying there was no way they would pay the Aussies anything for the rescue of their daughter!
You said it perfectly!
I hate to break it to you but they're broke. However, never fear! Coming to a TV near you! The Adventures in Sunderland!
The homeschooled kids I have known have a full social life outside of the corrupt public schools. Its up to the parents to see that the kids have a social life, too. A lot of them get their social life from church activities, etc. Home schooled kids usually get a better education and are more well adjusted then public school kids. And they are not indoctrinated to be little commies.
I home-school our daughter. That isn’t crazy.
Now if I encouraged my 12 year old daughter to hike alone along the Mexico/Arizona border to become the youngest girl to hike the border alone, and I had her do it in summer, and had a reality show planned to document it...THAT would be crazy! In fact, that would be time for someone to step in before I killed my daughter!
Yes, donations - to recover ‘Abby’s boat’ for her, not to reimburse the Australian government, and the french vessel that went out of its way to save their daughter. I consider that misplaced priorities.
These parents are lower than whale poop. I wish the authority that recognizes records in sailing would make the boat put up bond for any cost related to rescue or admin expense for a country. Plus require 18 years old as the entry level.
I am so frosted about this. Sending your kid to her potential death is child abuse in the first degree. The kid failed, was behind schedule, put in for repairs and was then advised by her father to continue the march. Put those parents in a Dingy in the middle of the Southern Ocean in Winter. Let’s see what hero’s they are. That girl was facing weather worse that what crashed her for the next two months.
Honor the rescuers. The fishing boat crew that got her lost production, and the captain, almost his life. Fell into the water. I’m hot about this.
Check out real sailors comments, post #2944.
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=102689&st=2925
“Our ancestors didn’t have time to be kids at 16. Life expectancy now is 77.7 years. Comparing her with 16 year olds from our history is misleading.”
Following that logic, then we shouldn’t expect our children to behave as responsibly as a 16 year old from that era, until age 30. The better way to see longer life span, is not as a reason to extend childhood, but that if will become that capable at 16, how much more life you can get out of 77 years.
I agree. I think homeschooling is the best way to educate kids. However it requires work and patience, something a lot of people don’t want to do. They would rather send them to school and get them out of their hair. Some are just snobs who think the public schools are the only ones smart enough to teach your kids. Good for you for homeschooling.
I never said otherwise. I simply stated the way things are.
Great post.
“Yeah. I read 30 to 40%. I can’t imagine the heartbreak”
That was basically the plot setup of that movie “The Yearling”. Kid was the sole survivor of mom’s 4 children. It was a believeable plotline back then.
“I think that Child Protective Services should assume custody of her, and check into the safety of her siblings.”
Normally, I ignore such calls for expansion of the long arm of “Da Gooberment”, but yours simply is so egregious as to justify wasting valuable time on a worthless postulate.
You appear to be making an emotion driven call for the State to intervene in the private affairs/decisions of a family of relatively high achievement individuals.
On what basis do you justify allowing a mere social science major to oversee and/or countermand a parent?
Belay that last!
Since when did you accept principles of communism? The child is, after all, the responsibility of the parent in the American system
Enjoy your participation trophy.
Based on recommendations by some co-workers who were in the Coast Guard, I suggested that my son (16 yrs old) investigate their options for paying for college. It looked like they had some great programs.
How does your daughter like the Coast Guard?
Remember years back when legislation had to be passed about the minimum age of pilots -- because all the children's ages kept getting younger & younger & younger in attempts to achieve cross-country flight records?
I’ve been doing my genealogy and a lot of little ones disappear in the census in a 10 year span.
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