How do we actively work to stop tandems with minor children from happening here in the US?
I speak out - here on the US Hawks forum, in hopes others will agree or change their minds.
Perhaps the Hawks will suggest minimum age limits. I would encourage that,
As a parent, I want other parents to know how STUPID and IRRESPONSIBLE they are to place their children at risk a dangerous distance from the ground.
Parents do this because they become impassioned about flight.
This has nothing to do with children and they need to recognize that their personal proselytizations about free flight should not apply to kids.
There can be nothing more tragic than to realize you have killed your own offspring, your own immortality, through an unnecessary and foolish act of hubris.
Why take the risk?
I was a hang gliding proselytizer myself.
I wanted everyone to experience the joy of free flight.
I even promised my daughter I would take her hang gliding.
But I never did.
I finally realized, in a brief moment of normalcy, that it isn't right to endanger your children, no matter how
out there you become.
Children are ours to protect.
When they grow up, they can make life or death decisions for themselves.
As parents, it is our obligations to make life-only decisions for our children on their journey to adulthood.
If we are overcome by severe attacks of proselytization, we need to regroup and remember that it is our responsibility to protect our children, not make them into little
minimes to flatter our outsized egos.
I despise people who put their children in situations where they could be maimed or die.
I despise their rationalizations.
These people have serious problems with their identities and self-worth.
You can't project risk onto your children in an attempt to make your own risk appear less real.
That's not rational.
Grow the f**k up and be an adult.