A little extreme??
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21126016/?GT1=10450
BEIJING - A father tied his 10-year-old daughter’s hands and feet and watched her swim in a chilly southern China river for three hours in a task he said Thursday would help the girl achieve her dream of swimming across the English Channel
He didn't force her to do it, she wanted it.
“Her swimming skills are perfect and she insisted on doing this,” Huang Daosheng said in a telephone interview.
However who's encouraging it, and who gave her the idea in the first place?
And this family isn't the only one going to the extreme...
This past summer, 8-year-old Zhuang Huimin ran 2,212 miles from her home on the southern island province of Hainan to Beijing in 55 days, her father trailing behind her on a motor scooter. The run drew criticism from some media commentators as excessive for a young child.
EIGHT YEARS OLD! The Dad didn't even run it with her. At least (and I'm not condoning the first story at all) the Dad in the first story was swimming along side his 10 year old-tied-up daughter (albeit untied).
This is just bizarre and unnecessary.
BEIJING - A father tied his 10-year-old daughter’s hands and feet and watched her swim in a chilly southern China river for three hours in a task he said Thursday would help the girl achieve her dream of swimming across the English Channel
He didn't force her to do it, she wanted it.
“Her swimming skills are perfect and she insisted on doing this,” Huang Daosheng said in a telephone interview.
However who's encouraging it, and who gave her the idea in the first place?
And this family isn't the only one going to the extreme...
This past summer, 8-year-old Zhuang Huimin ran 2,212 miles from her home on the southern island province of Hainan to Beijing in 55 days, her father trailing behind her on a motor scooter. The run drew criticism from some media commentators as excessive for a young child.
EIGHT YEARS OLD! The Dad didn't even run it with her. At least (and I'm not condoning the first story at all) the Dad in the first story was swimming along side his 10 year old-tied-up daughter (albeit untied).
This is just bizarre and unnecessary.