SM:TV, a generally good humoured show for 8- to 14-year-olds, had held a competition, Win What You Want, in which young hopefuls competed to win a prize of their own choosing. That Saturday, a 13-year-old girl, who wanted to see orangutans in the wild, took on a 9-year-old who wanted to (deep breath) take her terminally ill mother to the US. Since when was it acceptable to use a child's love for her dying mum as a competition stake?
Not surprisingly, the 13-year-old won and went off to hang with some apes, while the 9-year-old was left with nothing but a shattered expression and the notion that she had failed her mother. This is a classic example of how not to conduct competition among young people.
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