Drinking at 14? Is this the norm? My daughter is 15 and Im sorry but there is no way she would be out drinking. She does have a lot of friends and they meet up some weekends to go shopping or cinema or just hang out, but she doesn’t have a boyfriend as she wants to focus on her schoolwork. She will be doing her GCSEs this year and then wants to go on to do A-levels. Eventually she intends to go to Uni to become a doctor.
I agree that Isabelle is very isolated and doesn’t lead a normal teenage life, but I wouldn’t want to see her hanging around with boys or drinking either.
There is plenty of time for that adult stuff later on.
Also Isabelle does attend a mixed school.
They did go to see frozen 2. They took Jace along and I remember Chris asking him if he enjoyed it. As if Chris, as if!
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For me personally, I feel the shift to mixed sex private schools is unfortunate. Girls especially (I’m the mother of three privately educated girls) flourish without the ‘distraction’ of the male species in the classroom. However let’s be realistic - the girls watch the boys and the boys watch the girls and regardless of barriers the two will meet. If Isabelle (and later her sisters) have sufficiently good interpersonal skills, confidence and integrity developed over time and with experience they should be able to have values and boundaries not to be distracted from learning.
I would like to think this young woman is getting the guidance needed to plan for her future and that her parents are saving her ‘earnings’ to fund her through university without the strain of a student loan attached to her degree. She also needs to develop a non-academic CV with hobbies and voluntary work. I would hate to see her or any of them end up as young unmarried mothers without jobs.
