I'm bored!!!

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Hi! I was wondering if any one could advise please!
I have a 15 year old boy who has been obsessed with the crappy Xbox for about 3 years.
Right now he hasn't had it for the last month because there has been a build up off crap from him. I've told him he can maybe have it back in the Christmas holidays. Obviously I'm out of order, I'm trying to control his life.

He says he's not into anything and all his mates either smoke and drink or play the Xbox.
I just want him to have a balance. He said he wanted to join a football club so I sorted it and then he didn't t want to do it, the same with karate and bmxing. His uncle is into bmxing and he buys old ones and builds them up. My son isn't interested. He got into fishing so his other uncle bought him a rod. He's not into it now.
He just wants to sit in his bedroom and play that rubbish.

When he is on it it's from the moment he wakes up until he goes to bed. He talks to me like crap when he's on it, he's so impatient and annoyed all the time. Whenever you ask him to come downstairs he screams IN A MINUTE! I DOING SOMETHING!!! He doesn't shower regularly and he just wears his jim jams all day.

I just don't know what to do.

I've suggested everything to him but it's always a no.

Has anyone else got any ideas for me please?

Send him off to boarding school-they'll send back an art loving, philosophical, literature devouring angle by the end of the term. But in all seriousness what did you expect when you bought it for him? Children emulate their parents and other figures in their immediate vicinity.

Firstly Ttbb is a prick. Being a parent is hard enough without parents of the decade who know everything about parenting giving that condescending comments. I'm a parent of a teenager that only ever wanted to play the computer. We buy them because they want them and every tom, dick & Harry's kids have got them. Although it used to piss me off that my son was on his computer every night at least I knew where he was. I would check what he was playing and had conversations about the perverts, bullying online etc. I personally would have worried more about my son if he was hanging about on the streets. However the moodiness and impatience is probably from the gaming. Maybe see if you can look on his accounts to check for bullying of ask a family member to have a look. I worried about that myself. Not showering seems to be a trend with some teenagers. My son drove me mad about it. Also unfortunately we can't make our teenagers to be interested in other hobbies although we know it would be better for them. Hopefully your son will do what mine is doing now and that is growing out of the computer and also showering more often. Though I think this is due to him having a girlfriend now xx