My parents were famously permissive with my sister and me when we were growing up. They let us run around by ourselves after school and eat candy every night after dinner. We were allowed to watch movies someone else might have deemed wildly inappropriate for our age bracket. Perhaps most of all, they indulged our insatiable appetite for stories, sometimes reading us four or five books before bed. I have no doubt they would rather have been relaxing, or talking to each other, or reading their own books, but they read aloud to us every night anyway.
It's amazing the lengths that parents will go to for their children. Around the time his daughter Kira was born in 2009, Bran Ferren—inventor, technologist, and former head of research and development for Disney's Imagineering department—took parental devotion to a whole other level. He set out to build the ultimate adventure truck, which could take Kira anywhere in the world she wanted to go. In a 2014 feature for WIRED, Brian Raftery chronicled Ferren's quest to build this big, bold vehicle, which he called the KiraVan. "All parents obsess over the kind of life they want for their children," Raftery mused. "Ferred is actually trying to design one."
At the time this story came out, Ferren's project was almost, kind of complete—a six-wheeled machine capable of traversing nearly any terrain that cost him millions to build. Two years later, he was test-driving it for a Vice video crew. The project had taken on a life of its own. But its origin story remains almost unbearably poignant to me. I'd love to know: If you're a parent, what's something wild—be it large or small—that you've done to make your child happy? And if you're not, what's a fond memory you have of your parents doing something borderline absurd for you? Write me a note or leave a comment beneath Raftery's story.
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