Synthesis Essay: Can Your Parents Go Too Far?

Can your parents go too far in supporting their children’s dream? I think that they can go too far because I think Jordan, the youngest boy to reach “the top of the world”, his dad Paul Romero, went a little too far. First of all, Paul Romero let his son climb the tallest mountains in each continent even though it can be dangerous. In lines 38-40 it says, “Many mountain climbers and medical experts questioned whether a 13-year-old boy could climb so high (Mt. Everest is 30,000 ft. high) without physically hurting himself.” These lines say that climbing a high mountain you could get really hurt because it is so cold or that it is so high that there could be no oxygen. Second, Paul is letting his son make a life and death decision. In lines