Posted on 06/14/2010 9:50:22 AM PDT by Ron C.
Here's a dose of reality.
The father of teen sailor Abby Sunderland told The NY Post that he's broke and had signed a contract to do a reality show, "Adventures in Sunderland," about his family of daredevil kids weeks after she set off on her doomed and dangerous solo sail around the globe.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Even if it had, out in the middle of the ocean, she would barely have noticed it passing by.
Thanks Carmody, I just can’t believe how fast this nation is sinking. You are so right about Geraldo - he had to concede the brother made it but then let it slip she failed because she was a girl.
Her making it would diminish his “manly feat” - therefore it’s child abuse.
What were her parents thinking an asteroid could have hit too!
Yeah, we should lower our expectations for today’s teens. Being bold and responsible as a teen was something they only did in the 1700s and 1800s. Not now.
Stupid overachieving girl belongs in front of a Wii, not behind the helm of a sailboat.
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I am pretty sure that ALL RECORD BREAKING is about publicity, attention, and money.
Your right, they matured faster because they figured out every one else can foot their tab. By the way you can buy a Abby16 Hoodie - Black for $49.99. Their done with the mundane adventure, time to process those credit cards. Do you think they’ll reimburse the Aussies for their “mature” adventure from their profits?
The “’kids are a blessing’ crowd”? I’m happy to be on God’s side of this issue: Children are a blessing.
Order of the Arrow?
Me too.
Bet your grandfather and his family footed his own bill!
Perhaps they should - that’s between the Aussies and them, but like HER, nobody forced the Aussies to make the trip.
The first man to become Admiral in the U.S. Navy captained his first ship at age 12.
I can’t believe FReepers have such low expectations from teens.
I wonder how long it will be before the California Child Protective Services swoop down on the family?
Just for the record, I would not have allowed any of my kids (under 18 to do this without me along or another sailor, of age). Anything you let your children do or you do for your children is under scrutiny by the nanny state until they are 18. That’s not the reason I wouldn’t have let my kids go, safety and not of adult age are the reasons. Even if they were of adult age I’d still worry my arse off, but 18 is the age of “adulthood”.
Yes and the record breakers usually don’t put their kids in harms way or expect everyone else to foot their bills!
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
The 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!
This is what the shipbuilder said.
Teen Abby Sunderland not fit to handle winter seas, says Aussie who built her yacht
The man who built Wild Eyes said that Abby was not up to the trip.
"The way we built the boat means that it is unsinkable. We had stringent rules to test the positive buoyancy and we tested it again and again," said Queensland boat builder Jon Sayer.
"This boat is bigger and faster than Jessica Watson's boat. In Abby's case she wasn't physically or mentally strong enough to handle a 40-foot boat in those winter storm conditions."
She’s training to drive a tour boat. She can’t read or write or count but she knows the “high seas”
I also remember there being an animal (cat?) stuck in some well or sewer, and that there was a HUGE rescue effort. It was all over TV for days and days.
Did the cat, or it’s parents have to pay for the rescue?
He probably had enough common sense not to go around the world alone, and when the Indian ocean had hurricane force winds.
I thought it was too much when he put his son on a boat and pushed him out to sea last year, but a 16 year old girl, crossing the Atlantic alone...in winter? Ridiculous. Unforgivable.
You seriously need to look into that!
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