Comments on: Sailing around the world at 13: How young is too young? http://matadornetwork.com/sports/around-the-world-at-13-how-young-is-too-young/ travel culture worldwide Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Laura Dekker Sails Across Atlantic http://matadornetwork.com/sports/around-the-world-at-13-how-young-is-too-young/#comment-44475 Laura Dekker Sails Across Atlantic Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:26:18 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=1563#comment-44475 [...] Dutch authorities to begin her trip. You can read more about her in Matador Sports’ article Sailing Around the World At 13: How Young is Too Young? var ids = new Array; ids.push(1477); Tagged under: Laura Dekker, sailing, world record td [...] [...] Dutch authorities to begin her trip. You can read more about her in Matador Sports’ article Sailing Around the World At 13: How Young is Too Young? var ids = new Array; ids.push(1477); Tagged under: Laura Dekker, sailing, world record td [...]

]]> By: Paul Sullivan http://matadornetwork.com/sports/around-the-world-at-13-how-young-is-too-young/#comment-42719 Paul Sullivan Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:46:50 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=1563#comment-42719 Definitely food for thought here Adam. Thought provoking piece. I guess the ultimate decisions must lay with her guardians (parents). Hope they know what they're doing. Definitely food for thought here Adam. Thought provoking piece. I guess the ultimate decisions must lay with her guardians (parents). Hope they know what they’re doing.

]]> By: Julie http://matadornetwork.com/sports/around-the-world-at-13-how-young-is-too-young/#comment-42720 Julie Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:11:32 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=1563#comment-42720 Great piece, Adam. While I'm with David on a more hands-off my family attitude when it comes to the courts, I also think that basic psychology and biology have to be taken into consideration. At 13, it's questionable whether a kid is developmentally ready to take on a journey of such epic proportions (hell, at 32 I'm pretty sure *I'm* not developmentally ready). Great piece, Adam. While I’m with David on a more hands-off my family attitude when it comes to the courts, I also think that basic psychology and biology have to be taken into consideration. At 13, it’s questionable whether a kid is developmentally ready to take on a journey of such epic proportions (hell, at 32 I’m pretty sure *I’m* not developmentally ready).

]]> By: Carlo http://matadornetwork.com/sports/around-the-world-at-13-how-young-is-too-young/#comment-42642 Carlo Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:06:54 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=1563#comment-42642 I think the threat she made to her mother pretty much tells it all doesn't it? 16 (Jessica Watson) is one thing...13 is a whole other ball game. Speaking of Jessica Watson, here is the latest news...she was hit by a cargo ship while she was sleeping below deck: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26047924-952,00.html I think the threat she made to her mother pretty much tells it all doesn’t it? 16 (Jessica Watson) is one thing…13 is a whole other ball game.

Speaking of Jessica Watson, here is the latest news…she was hit by a cargo ship while she was sleeping below deck:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26047924-952,00.html

]]> By: David Page http://matadornetwork.com/sports/around-the-world-at-13-how-young-is-too-young/#comment-42925 David Page Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:01:24 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=1563#comment-42925 Great piece, Adam! Sounds nuts to me. Still, not sure I like the idea of courts deciding what's best for children. No matter how irresponsible it may seem to me, who am I (or who are the Dutch courts) to say? Having been the recipient of any number of stern lectures from other, slightly more self-righteous parents about how dangerous it is to ski with my one-year-old in a backpack (like my dad did with me, and his with him), or how no child should be weaned before 24 months :-), I don't know. Maybe there are lines that can be drawn, but I lean toward toward trust and freedom and stupidity over the tyranny of the municipal code... Slippery slope and all that... Probably have to let people be lunatics amongst themselves. As long as they only endanger their own. Shit, who knows. Great piece, Adam! Sounds nuts to me. Still, not sure I like the idea of courts deciding what’s best for children. No matter how irresponsible it may seem to me, who am I (or who are the Dutch courts) to say? Having been the recipient of any number of stern lectures from other, slightly more self-righteous parents about how dangerous it is to ski with my one-year-old in a backpack (like my dad did with me, and his with him), or how no child should be weaned before 24 months :-) , I don’t know. Maybe there are lines that can be drawn, but I lean toward toward trust and freedom and stupidity over the tyranny of the municipal code… Slippery slope and all that… Probably have to let people be lunatics amongst themselves. As long as they only endanger their own. Shit, who knows.

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