I moved to Florence aged 16 - my parents' friends were horrified
I was certainly too young to be making sensible adult decisions . But it transpires that we do actually have some values in common because she, like me, is the kind of free range parent who believes in letting your teenager take risks.
Someone joked on social media this week that the Allsopp drama had provided the perfect excuse for middle-class people to boast about how cultured they were at a staggeringly young age. I had two hours of lectures a day and otherwise I had unlimited time to drink coffee and pose as a writer outside cafés and listen to Pitbull and dance on a really dirty nightclub pole .
But the thing is, doing something when you’re way too young is how you work it out and while none of those things were a good idea, they were all really, really fun, and in the unconventional sense I would argue that it actually was educational because they were all mistakes I needed to get out of my system at some point or another.
Some of Allsopp’s critics have a fair point about her son’s trip – there is unquestionably a massive whack of privilege required to be able to send your child interrailing aged 15.
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