My son is 17. Since going to secondary school he completely changed, from funny and happy go lucky to shy and petrified. Bullying went on for 4yrs and not much was done to help, the kids must have got bored with it and moved on to their next victim. Son then went to college on leaving school but nearly cried before going in, even so, he went in and all was fine. Just started his 2nd year, its a shame the course is only 2.5 days a week cos the rest of the time hes happy to sit infront of the computer hiding away from the world. Its his comfort zone where no one can get to him. Hes a little bit behind kids his age meaning, not as clued up and has little to say. Not into clothes, music, girls, nothing. Hes as shy as they come and I still have to speak for him at the Drs and take him to the barbers and tell them what he wants done. This has got way out of hand, but cos of his age, he wont get help. Im worried that once he leaves college he will be too shy to go to work and how will he deal with interviews. He barely answers yes and no. I have my pushy sister that has no kids saying, get him off the internet, he will soon go out. No he wont, he would rather sit and do nothing than have to interact with people. I really feel for him, hes a nice kid, but they never listen to me and have no dad in their life.
His twin brother that is the complete opposite, tries to get a conversation out of him which is near on impossible and once said, it dont feel like we're twins (a bit hurtful to him i imagine) as twins are usually inseperable. I always stick up for him as he wont answer back. But his twin is as a rule good as gold, theres no fighting or anything.
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
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Janey96 · 26/09/2015 01:59
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