4 pubes will become a Lily Allenesque YouTube smash.

The first single with be called 4 pubes - straight to no 1!

I think he will shoot to fame by releasing an album and having every Guardian-reading teenager in the country falling desperately in love with him

I suspect you are spot on there, Mrs B.

Oh, I sooooo agree with mrsbaldwin.

Here are my predictions for Jake Myerson's future (with apologies for their appalling cynicism, if he himself is reading!)

Spends a bit more time dossing about smoking dope/playing guitar etc (whilst mum and dad earn more money writing about it).

Sees the light one day whilst lolling in dingy bedsit reading philosophy book or similar.

Signs up for degree at ex-poly/new university and gets a First (for added irony, this will be in Psychology).

Then either:
*decides to do a PhD and earns a bit of extra on the side writing articles about how it felt to be the subject of a book by his mum (taking a leaf out of her book, you see), before getting a part-time junior lecturing job and eventually climbing to tenure
or:
*discovers having got his degree he's competing for work with other younger, redbricks and Oxbridges - mum and dad help out by ringing round various contacts fixing up work experience/internships in media/PR or other similar field, one of whom eventually gives him a job.

In both scenarios he ends up fine - and beats the kids who all wanted similar jobs too, to pole position.

We'll see if I'm right

On the dilemma of what should educated middle-class parents do when a son wants to be a rock musician, one couple I know faced that situation. They told their son that he had their full blessing to pursue his career as a rock musician - provided the first million he earned, he gave half to Mum and Dad so that they could take early retirement from their teaching jobs.

They are now following his rock career with great interest - and with increasing desperation to get out of teaching.

yeah, get rid of the guitar and sign him up for the army cadets immediately.

shall i chuck out ds' guitar??



no oxbridge/lawyer route for him anyways

For those of you without teens yet, I can assure you Jake M is the archetypal middle class teen who doesn't want to do Oxbridge and/or become a doctor or lawyer, but wants to be a musician instead. There are lots and lots of them about.

Unfortunately, for him, he has the Myersons as parents.

Poor boy. No doubt he will pull himself together in the end and end up as, erm let me think, a novelist???