I'm trying to teach my kid autonomy, but he doesn't want it. When I was 12, I traveled around the country by train on my own for 4 days. Dutch railways had a s

I'm trying to teach my kid autonomy, but he doesn't want it. When I was 12, I traveled around the country by train on my own for 4 days. Dutch railways had a special ticket for that: Tienertoer: 4 days of free train travel within a 10 day period, only for teenagers, and you got a booklet with all sorts of discounts for museums and other stuff to visit. At 12, I figured I was a teenager and therefore old enough to do this. My son, almost 14 now, is not remotely interested in anything like this. Though he does claim to be old enough to stay home on his own for a weekend while we are away. But I don't trust him to actually come out from behind his (my, actually) PC if we do this.