Our Week Afloat by Wallace P. Stanley
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ePublished by
February 2019
Originally published 1893
Non-fiction
Author: Wallace P. Stanley
ePublished by
February 2019
Originally published 1893
Non-fiction
Author: Wallace P. Stanley
In the 21st century we have something called “free-range parenting” which promotes the concept of “raising children in the spirit of encouraging them to function independently and with limited parental supervision” (as Wikipedia states it); which is, in spite of its good intentions, more a sad commentary on the over-protective paranoia of modern society than a revolutionary parenting concept. Imagine a time when two New Jersey boys, pondering what should be their next summer-vacation adventure and owning a little wooden sailboat they recently purchased for “five dollars each,” decide to take their boat on a week-long trip across the bay and up a tidal river to regions of which they know nothing. They want to feel like explorers, you see. This used to be the kind of thing parents encouraged.
Published originally in 1893, this is a 72,000-plus-word trip back in time to an era when free-range parenting had another name: it was simply called parenting.
Published originally in 1893, this is a 72,000-plus-word trip back in time to an era when free-range parenting had another name: it was simply called parenting.