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My 10-year old celebrated a friend’s birthday party. Let me state that with this experience, my respect for 10-year olds has also grown and I guess I was...humbled. The 10-year old celebrant organized her own birthday party. She picked up her two closest friends (Diru and another friend) and went to the really nice swimming pool near the school. My eldest daughter and I arrived at the party place and lo and behold - what did we see? Three 10-year olds dripping from swimming and helping themselves to Jollibee take outs, all by themselves with no adult overseeing them. I asked the children if there was a lifeguard on duty and they said yes. As I was taking pictures, I saw the huge warning sign negating the children’s claims of the presence of a lifeguard. They were fine. They knew where to stay given their swimming capacities. There was only one good swimmer in the group which was my daughter. One friend cannot swim but was waving her floater proudly and the other can swim ‘a littl...