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孩子适合成为背包客吗？

Wenwen, 4, from east China's Jiangxi Province, has been on backpacking journeys since she was 15 months old.

Wenwen’s parents decided to take their daughter on a backpacking journey across half of China when she was just 15 months old. When they first started, Wenwen's father says she could only keep up with travelling 15-20 kilometers a day on foot. However, as she grew older, she got more and more exercise and she was able to walk most of the journey all by herself. Each day, according to her father, they walked to 30 kilometers a day, sleeping in a tent and cooking themselves.

But as their story got media attention, people started to criticize the parents for not caring enough for the little girl. Some Weibo users said, “Parents should let their children go to kindergarten and have a stable life, not constantly be moving or traveling. And they should not let their own plans triumph(胜利) over the kid’s educational needs.” The mother argues that the hiking and backpacking trips have made Wenwen stronger and more independent in comparison to other girls of her age living in the big city.

According to her parents, they plan to let Wenwen go to primary school two years later. Next month, says her father, the family will set off again heading to Tibet via southwest China's Sichuan Province.