Inadvertently breaking a rule is one thing, deliberately doing so is quite another. Feel free to do whatever you want on your own property.
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If you want to bend or break rules
Rule #1
Is do not draw attention to yourself
Parents of 6-year-old marathon runner address outcry after child protective service visit (yahoo.com)
Seems like this family made it back into the news.
The kid should not have been aloud to run. The bones and ligaments and tendons, muscles etc are not strong enough to support this much running and pounding. All the little bones in the feat haven't grown etc. It's like lifting weights and weight training you have to wait until early teens. I just think there could be damage done and a 6 year old doesn't know when to stop when bad pain comes they just keep going.
The kid should not have been allowed to run.( I meant)
When I first watched the Crawford video on the AT man was I impressed by them. But then I dug in more on some of their other stuff and the parents, especially the Dad, began to rub me the wrong way. Sometimes you have to push your kids even when it makes them uncomfortable. But something doesn't sit right with me on how they go about it.
Come on kid your halfway there just run another 13 miles and I'll buy you some Pringles. Ok daddy I'll be a good boy.
Yep it is what it is.
Is the Dad's latest "They're being mean to us" GoFundMe page up yet?
It's one thing to encourage kid to push a bit outside of their comfort zone. But virtually dragging a 6 year old through an 8+ hour effort that would be a brisk walk for a grown adult? No great surprise that CPS stopped by the house.
That boy will need much counseling....child abuse.
I agree that they're permanently altering the kid's physical development.
Proof? Olympic level gymnasts.
wait - this boy is only 6 years old?
That is even more disturbing.