He argues if we tell him to shower - and if he can get away with it he won't have one. The longest we let him go was 4 days, and he stank, and it was at my mums house. My mum didn't help by saying he didn't have to have a shower every day - well no but if he washed himself instead but he doesn't. Even saying "actually DS1 you smell" makes no difference to him
When he does have a shower he won't wash his hair.
He has no motivation at school, no idea what he wants to do when he leave sschool, no inclination to revise for GCSE in the summer, doesn't want to go to 6th form college, turned down 2 chances of weekend work.
Would wear the same clothes - pants and socks too - all week and longer if we let him
We have to say "have you cleaned your teeeth/wahsed our face/put deodorant on" all the time, DH has even stood over him whilst he cleans his teeth, He needs braces but the orthodontist won't fit them becasue he won't clean his teeth properly
He won't do anything, admiteddly where we live there is no one his age and no clubs for his age, but he won't go and play snooker or football in teh gym, won't go out with us for the day only comes downstairs to eat.
Is this perfectly normal behaviour for 16 year old boys? I worry that he is going to turn out lazy, selfish and unmotivated like my youngest brother
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Saltire · 13/01/2014 14:42
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