Last Friday we went to bed early around 9.30. My DS16 was round at his friends.
The following eve a friend of mine rang me and told me that her son (older than mine by about 5 yrs) had seen video on social media of my son driving my car the previous evening. I didn't know what to say to her but was grateful for the heads up. 2 of his male friends and 1 female friend were also in the car.
My son and 2 of his friends were in the house at that time getting ready to go out, so I went and confronted him. He's the worlds worst liar and admitted it straight off! I was absolutely stunned. I totally lost it. I swore at him, screamed at his friends to get out of my house. I was appalled. I still am. I totally lost it.
My partner (not his dad) also told the lads to get out. One of them we suspect was also in the car with my son.
I then started crying. My son kept apologising over and over again. I just told him to get out and that I couldn't stand to be around him.
He spent the remainder of the weekend at his friends. I've barely spoke to him all week, he's either been at college or at friends.
He's tidied his room and has text me numerous times apologising. He's asked about police involvement and what will happen if the police find out. I've told him he could end up in prison and not able to drive for years.
I've banned his friends from the house, I've not cooked him any meals or washed any of his clothes. How on earth do you punish a nearly 17 yr old. He bought his own phone so can't really take that off him and he has a pt job so rarely asks me for money.
A week later I'm still shocked at what he did. I honestly don't think he realised the consequences of what he was doing or what could go wrong.
I'm so disappointed
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BG2015 · 08/10/2016 13:55
You've punished him enough. I think it's time to move on. It sounds like he's learnt his lesson and won't do it again. Thankfully no one was hurt and the car's not damaged.
Acrossthepond my mum use to sleep with the car keys under her pillow! 
Oh dear, I feel so much for you. He is incredibly silly & very, very, lucky to have gotten away with it 
When I was young, a good friend did something similar. A club we tried to get into wouldn't let him in in jeans. Living nearby he went home to change & came back. We didn't know until later that he had taken the family car to come back faster. We also didn't know he had had an accident & had freaked out & left the car. He thought he had hit a tree, he didn't realise he had also knocked over & killed an elderly man who turned out to be a judge. He was such a lovely, quiet lad with such a bright future, non of us could get our heads around him doing this.
He was never the same again, he was sentenced to only 3 months in Prison because he had tried to commit suicide 3 times before his trial. He was raped multiple times in prison & spent the next 6 years if his life trying to commit suicide by driving vehicles into walls & rivers. He surved, but became more & more disabled with each attempt. He eventually hung himself when he was only 26.
He was a beautiful soul that made a deadly mistake, one that ruined his life, the judges families life & those that loved him forever.
Your boy has been incredibly lucky & needs to know just how stupid he has been. If DD did this, I would involve the police, by way of making sure she never did it again
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