BAR wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
Has anyone else followed the story about the 13 yr old kid that wanted
to sail round the world alone? Lenore Skenazy who has previously
championed allowing kids a lot of freedom has an article against this
and I agree with her. 13 is just too young to have sufficient
judgement to take on the dangers of sailing round the world alone.
Children do not have civil rights because society believes they do not
have enough judgement so we do not allow them to make such decisions.

Intelligence knows no age, wisdom and judgment come with experience and
experience can only come with time.

I read where the group that administers such things dropped the
"Youngest to . . ." category because of where it was headed.