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stubby43
stubby43 aka Phil is a 25.42 year old boy, has been a member since December 22, 2006, has scored 3,809 submissions, giving an average score of 2.65, helping 191 designs get printed.
URL: http://www.travellingcameraclub.com/
AIM: stubbyloves
In need of advice with my project (parents, help!)
Ok so the short version is I run a project called the travelling camera club, it started out as the pic it forward project on the threadless blogs.

Basically people email me with their address and I organise them into a route of 5 people, one person buys a camera and takes 5 photos then posts the camera to the next person and the next person until it gets back to me, I develop the photos and put them online for everyone to look at.

The only people that ever get a copy of someones address is me and the person that will be posting the camera to them.

Ok the situation, a 14 year old girl living in australia sent me an email asking to sign up, fortunately she didnt send her address but I'm kind of worried.

Is 14 too young to take part in a project like this?

I can make it so she doesn't give out her address at all, if I put her at the start of a route and give her an address to send it to, I can also pair her up with someone in another country, like the other side of the world.

But I still feel a bit awkward about the situation, part of me wants to just say no but on the other hand I've never rejected anyone from taking part in the project.

Plus the age things never come up, the youngest to date is 18 (as far as I know I've never asked for peoples ages).

xiv
   xiv on Jun 05 '11 at 5:53pm
write up some sort of permission slip that the parents of minors need to fill out or agree to.
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jun 05 '11 at 5:53pm
I think giving her an address of someone a good distance away seems like safe bet if it's that much a concern for you. Another thing you can do is possibly get in contact with her parents and ask for consent.
stubby43
stubby43 on Jun 05 '11 at 5:59pm
In reality I'm not all that worried in terms of anything bad happening, I ask everyone to take the same risk and I do feel that people are generally good, hell I've met most of you guys in person and there wasnt a problem and she probably wont meet anyone unless theres an australia meet up (which seems unlikely) but I'm worried the parents will freak out if a package from a stranger just turns up on their door step.

In the future I want to impose an age limit, and permission slips might be a good way to go though I dont really have anyway of varifying any of this info unless they have a facebook.

I'll have to email her at some point, so I need to know what I'm saying.
mike bautista
mike bautista on Jun 05 '11 at 6:06pm
Informing her parents before hand of the package is a good idea, and talking to them. Parents could be skeptic seeing a package from a stranger, so it might be a good idea to tell them about your club, and show them what you do and stuff. It's harmless, and if the parents say no, either the girl can't do it or she'll find a way around it.
stubby43
stubby43 on Jun 07 '11 at 4:54pm
Cheers Mike, I just dont know how to handle that in an email without coming off like a dick.
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