Abby Sunderland's big adventure The 16-year-old sailor is safe, thank goodness. But what were her parents thinking, letting a teenager loose on the

Imprisonment on adolescents. With stars in their eyes and the wind in her sails, and was in the teens try almost anything, however, harmful to themselves and others. That our role as parents as to prevent them from doing so. To tell them it's a crazy idea to try to expand the scope of Everest, and fly across America on board a small plane, or sail solo around the world in a 40ft yacht when you have not yet reached adulthood.

This is what 16 years) Abe Sunderland and only tried to do, falling in the Indian Ocean run, beacons to send up a satellite in emergency situations and turning weather. Of course, we are all happy she was rescued - nothing more than her parents. But it must not there in the country in the first place, fighting the storm.

There was no purpose for traveling. The X factor in the sea - and show all, not substance. Abe gave the same reason module to do something silly so we have all heard tearfully uttered a thousand times by contestants in the teen television: "want to live my dream." But first, she needs to get a life. Khater Abe to become a star on the ocean waves. And could perhaps be lined quay with Cheryl Cole and Simon Cowell for their return.

This quest under the age of stardom warps all sense parenting on the proportion of good and safety of children. We are parents, we are told we must not let our children to walk to school alone until they were at least 12, in the case of accident or have been abducted and. We are under strict instructions to monitor and access to the Internet, and make sure they do not spend a lot of time alone in front of a computer screen in case you prepare them by the sexual exploitation of children. So far, and is hailed as the hero when he was a teenager launches solo in the high seas to the wind 60 knots and waves of 50 feet.

Publicity photos of the beneficial in California aboard a wild eyes move any of this danger. Instead, they look as if they had been torn from the pages of bulletin Fall LP, with Abe in pale blue, clothing and sailing a coordinated, long hair blowing fair, sun-lit, in the salt air.

But what is dangerous. And reckless. And frankly irresponsible allowed to lose 16 years) in the yacht 40ft. Function is the mother clip their wings a teenager, and trim their sails. Abe ambitious, pushy parents and clearly saw no need to do so. And when he sailed her oldest brother, Zack left high school last year, aged 17 years, all around the world alone. Each of the brothers, Lawrence and Marianne Sunderland, the operating system Parenting "extreme mobile", where parents control their children through communication and text messages almost every hour. However, mobile phones, satellites, and related, as recognized when they tried to help my father "drive to explore her" by far, receive 2000 miles to the east of Madagascar may be "incomplete".

It is also dangerous to other people involved, which may be only a dream to return safely to their families of their own that night. It was a great rescue operation which will be held at Abe's dream of hitting rocks and adolescents, including the conversion of three vessels and Qantas passenger jet. French fishing vessel changed its course is now on her way to pick up the daughter of Sunderlands' faltering.

I've had some crazjavascript:void(0)y adventures in my life, travel, writing, and crossed the ocean a few wild. But I did so as an adult, aware of the cost for me and for others. If Abe wants to pursue her dream of Sunderland, and allow them. But let her grow up first. If not for the French fishing vessel, has said it did not have the opportunity to