"Bad Ass" Future Woman or Sad Victim?

"Bad Ass" Future Woman or Sad Victim?

We may have been overly protective of our three kids. That’s the bad news. The good news is that they survived into adulthood.

Then, again, we only had 3 kids. If we had had seven with one bun in the oven like the daredevil sailor-parents of Abby Sunderland maybe we would have figured we could lose one, or two, and still be ahead of the game.

I can’t read the minds of the parents of young Miss Abby Sunderland but I do know that losing any child, even an adult “child,” would have to be a devastating loss. Then again, some parents with seven or eight might calculate they could write off a couple, especially if there’s that proverbial pot of gold at the end of their calcualtions.

Or, perhaps not.

Abby Sunderland, all of 16 years of age, that same age when most American girls are into makeup, and boys, and music, and boys, and texting, and boys, and friends, and boys, is alleged to have been far more interested in sailing around the the world, alone, in her 40 foot boat, Wild Eyes, than in any of those silly teenage girl interests. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1737)