to sell the xbox my son got for christmas to pay his phone bill?

[fatkatyslim]

just checked my bank account and my sons phone bill has gone out,£178!!!
phone was a gift for his birthday and i pay the £30 monthly for chores he does around the house.i phoned vodafone and they have confirmed he has been downloading games,he was given the phone on the trust that this would not happen.so,do i sell his xbox?

it is £30 a month but that does include insurance, it is so much because of my appalling credit rating thanks to exh leaving me up shit creek

chopping his hands off could work but then how could i get him to wash the pots everynight lol

thankyou cat64 ,no doubt i'll be starting a new thread at some point about him or one of the other little darlings.the joys of having kids and i for one wouldnt change a thing .

one thing i do know,ds is never as bad as i was as a teenager.my mum would have been burned at the stake if mumsnet had been around then lol

thanks for the advice thesecondcoming,think i might just lock him up now and have done with it.dds 2 year old tantrums are so much easier to deal with

I am absolutely flabbergasted at what some people consider to be draconian! Yes, OK, a contract phone for someone that young is a bad idea. But he knows how much games cost, he knows he is downloading a lot of them, presumably he has a vague idea of your financial situation and yet he does not seem to give much of a shit.

She said he has £30 a month and is not to go over it. How much clearer can she be? He was just taking the piss. Teenage kids generally do, unless the consequences are enough to make them think again.