Parenting
So I’m reading this story about the 16 year old girl who got lost trying to sail solo around the world and all I can think is
“how bad are this girl’s parents?” When I was 16 I couldn’t even get my dad to let me go to a Candlebox concert in Cleveland. ‘
I thought at the time, as kids often do, that he was perhaps a bit overprotective. I wasn’t sure what horrible things he thought could possibly happen to me, but whatever the worst of them was, it was probably better than the average result of attempting to sail around the world by yourself.
There’s certainly something to be said about granting your kid some amount of freedom. Believe me, I don’t claim to be some sort of expert on parenting. The closest I’ve come is owning 2 dogs, and neither of them listen to instructions very well. But I’m pretty sure that if your kid says “hey daddy, do you mind if I try to pilot a boat around the world by myself” the correct answer is “not while you’re living under this roof.”
