The Importance Of Parenting Of Sunderland's Children

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The Sunderland’s are undoubtedly horrible parents. No child should be sailing alone without the company of loved ones in the mysterious and deadly oceans. Their actions have undeniably broken the basic principles of a good parent such as knowing when to say no and being a good role model To commence, every parent should create boundaries for their children to follow; this means that saying no can actually benefit the child. To continue, parents who know when to say no are the parents who know what is safe for their children. Clearly, the Sunderland’s didn’t say no to their daughter’s long and dangerous voyage which shows an extreme lack of knowledge of what is safe. Even Leonard Pitts, a writer for the Miami Herald said, “She was a teanager from Thousand Oaks, Calif., whose parents allowed her to risk her life in search of a dubois, and ultimately meaningless, …show more content…

Now that Abby has been granted permission to sail the seas, what will her limits be for her own children? After all, if Abby has the mentality that parents allowing their children to sail alone in the unpredictable oceans is okay, she’s only going to raise the level of dangerous activities her future children are allowed to participate in. For example, Abby may begin to believe that since she was allowed to sail alone around the world that her future teenage children should be able to drive around the U.S. independently. If this family legacy continues, just imagine all the life threatening activities their future family will want to engage in all because of the Sunderland’s poor parenting skills. However, there comes a time when it is right for parents to allow their children to perform tasks alone, but at age 16 a child is only beginning to learn how to drive and can’t even vote yet. How are these qualifiable credentials to let a 16 year old to sail around the world

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