http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/magazine/is-it-wrong-to-let-children-do-extreme-sports.html

I asked Jett, who has returned to skateboarding’s second-largest
ramp, the “mini mega,” if he will go back to the MegaRamp too. “Most likely I’ll
get back on it,” Jett said.

His father is O.K. with that. “That’s his choice, if he wants to do it again,”
Geoff says. “I’ll never tell him no.” He sees how hard Jett skates: five hours a
day, five days a week. Some people might regard his parenting as crazy — even
criminal. But where others may see only the injuries, Geoff believes he has
helped his sons, now 16 and 14, find passion, identity, tight-knit peer groups.
He says they eat right, sleep well and disdain alcohol and drugs. They apply the
grit they’ve acquired through skating to their schoolwork.

“If you’re going to live, you can’t live behind a stop sign, taking no risk, and
every time you want to do something that gets your heart beating, you decide
that it’s safer if you don’t,” he says. “That’s not how I live. I don’t want my
kids living like that.”