To do a 10 mile round trip to drop off DS' forgotten schoolwork?

[ChipsandGuac]

DS is 11 and not the most organised child on the planet. Imagine a bit of a mad professor type in an 11yo body.

Anyway, this morning he left his folder containing all his schoolwork in DHs car after DH gave him a ride to the bus stop. DH didn't see it until he arrived at the station and parked his car.

DH called me at home and I drove over to the station with the spare key, picked it up and went onto the school to drop it off and went home, a 10 mile round trip in all.

I kind of thought it was the kind thing to do but when I mentioned it to my friend, she suggested I was bonkers and that DS should have had to suffer the consequences of his lack of organization. That hadn't occurred to me.

So I figured I'd ask you lot.

DS1, DD1 and DD2 I would have gone as they were always very responsible and almost never forgot things.

DS2 I wouldn't have gone unless it was something extremely important. He was useless . He had to take a lunch bag, a gym bag and a school bag to school and the chances of him remembering all three were very slim. He was a lovely and hard working boy but he lived in a dreamworld. He is at Uni now and has grown up to be very well organized. I wonder if I helped him by not bailing him out or whether he would have grown out of it all by himself.