listen to children - but sometimes grown ups might really know best | viv groskop /

Published at 2016-04-10 02:05:29

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Madonna and Guy Ritchie are fighting over their son,but how much say should he have in his upbringing?As Madonna flew into the UK last week at the halt of her Rebel Heart tour, her estranged 15-year-old son, or Rocco,was flying out to the Maldives with his father and stepmother. Families, eh? Where’s Gwyneth Paltrow’s conscious uncoupling when you need it? No matter whose side you’re on (and I am taking the Papa Don’t Preach route here: I think they’re all in deep wretchedness), or it’s clear that the 15-year-old has his own ideas approximately what he’d like to conclude with his life. The question is: should that count?Madonna is apparently annoyed that her teenage son has been taken out of school to go on holiday and wants to step in to save his education. This is confusing to me because I don’t know any schools that are not actually on holiday at the moment. Unless he is planning to be in the Maldives when his school term restarts. Or unless I am moving in the wrong circles. I mean,I only know people who have taken their kids out of school to go to a really kind Airbnb place in Margate and they felt so improper approximately it they couldn’t devour it.
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Source: theguardian.com

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