My son is nearly 15 and is absolutely horrible at the moment - we don't like him one little bit.
He has been truanting on and off for ages now, is hanging around with a bad crowd, is cheeky, rude and bone idle. He is constantly telling us to shut up when we ask him to do the simplest tasks. We have put all the consequences in place (like no phone, ipod, no money, no new clothes, no magazines etc etc). Usually it was for a week at a time but as the truanting lessons hasn't stopped we have now said it is for a month. All we get is do I care and am I bothered. I don't think it has been long enough yet for him to realise we mean it this time.
My husband was so fed up with everything he had done one day a couple of weeks ago that he said if you truant again I can promise you you won't get a thing for your birthday (this can add up to £350 worth of clothes, vouchers and money as his grandad is very generous and we have quite a big family). He said he understood this but still missed one lesson the next morning.
It was his dad's birthday 2 weeks ago - I went out and bought a present as we were short on time and I sent my son to buy a card and told him to write it out. It was still by the front door unopened and in its original packaging that evening and the next morning.
He couldn't even be bothered to write the card out. He didn't even mention his dad's birthday and certainly didn't wish him happy birthday.
I really think we shouldn't bother with his birthday at all this year - just get everyone to send him a card and he can get his presents when he gets his act sorted out.
I have phoned parentline so many times I am at my wits end. The advisor agreed with me and said if a teenager is being so horrible why should they get £350 worth of presents.
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fedup4 · 29/06/2010 13:46
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29/06/2010 13:58
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