10 Year-Old Girl Swims River With Hands and Legs Tied
A little 10 year-old girl had her hands and feet bound and was thrown into a southern Chinese river by her father. It took her nearly three hours to cross the river.
Why would any father do such a thing? Well he felt like it will help her to achieve her goal of swimming the English Channel. The girl got the idea from watching a similar feat on a local television program.
“Her swimming skills are perfect and she insisted on doing this,” Huang Daosheng said.
Hunag Li swam like a dolphin in order to cross the more than a mile wide Xiang River.
“It’s not dangerous because, first, her swimming skills are really good and second, I was swimming with her, staying close to her,” the father said. “I had her when I was 35, so she is my heart. I would never play around with her life.”
The girl maybe a good swimmer, having started when she was six, but that hardly protected her from the cold of the river. Her face was blue from being so cold when her father picked her up out of the river.
“She asks me every day, ‘Can I achieve this? Is the English Channel wide? Are the waves really big?’” Huang Daosheng said.
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Great parenting right there… make sure your kid turns into the superstar you always wanted her to be…
…or die trying!
In china its acceptable to do crazy things to make your kids super athletes because there are so many people going to try out for sports they have a billion people
@Jeremy
correction ” . . the superstar you always wanted to be.”
“remember, we’ll love you just the way you are, as long as you’re perfect.”
Not the best method of parenting… but it’s a different culture altogether. Whether abusive or not, we are just observers. No details are known. At least the father was there freezing with her. They’re doing it as a father-daughter team. Contrast that to gymnist for the Olympics where young girls’ growth are stunted by design. Seems worse to me. This is just quirky.
Why is everyone assuming she did this against her will. She sounds like she’s just that hardcore.
Can’t imagine if one day his daughter wants to try smoking,or drinking!Perhaps he’ll let her try too!
We had a japanese exchange girl once….she came to the US because her father wanted her to, not because she wanted to. She said her father quit smoking because she came to the US, I said
Well at least when you go home he won’t be smoking and your home will be cleaner.
No, he will start smoking again when I go back.
Why??!!
Because he knows I suffer here, so he quit smoking so he also would suffer. When I am back home I will not suffer so he should not suffer also.
Different thinking, eh?
Every Chinese in China wanted to make their children become a superstar. I wonder how many were kill todays and succeed doing any kind of this dangerous stuff?
Don’t worry about the chinese, american parents kill the other kids to make room for their own “superstars”!! Nah, too lazy to even push their own kids, just kill off the rest!
what a joke!
in your opinion,Chinese are all weird,right?why not have a closely watch about them,everyone can do what he want as you guys do,plz take them equally
or trying learn them more,don’t give supposition about how they think over everything.
I don´t know, this father doesn´t seems too bad to me.I think it is worse the overzealous type that make the child totaly inept than the one who let the children try for themselves because in the end the childrens have their own will(of course it is hevilly influenciated by the parents but it is their own will to follow the dreams that the father has given to them).