Need some good impartial advice please.
My 16 year old son will be 17 next month. He’s an introvert & doesn’t go out with friends in the evening or parties at the weekend. He’s a gamer and talks to schools friends on-line.
He’s quite academic, doing ALevels and could be working harder but 100% school attendance and no issues raised by his school.
We discovered this eve that between Sunday & tonight he’s drank the most part of 700 ml gin bottle (stolen from the drinks cabinet). I’m still in a state of shock.
He did something similar on a much smaller scale a few month back. On that occasion, he got a telling off for stealing and a serious talk about the dangers of alcohol combined with trying to find out if he’s unhappy/bored etc .
We’ve tried to encourage meeting friends and doing social things but we don’t want to push him beyond his comfort zone.
What would you do?