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Footballguy
My #4 is 16 in February. First male child. Smartish, lazy, and video game addicted. He thinks he’s smarter than everyone, especially me. But he’s really not.
He’s been caught in lies. Nothing major but enough that I don’t trust his word.
He’s gotten caught a few different times cheating in online classes. I keep telling him he’s not smarter than the computers.
This week he did something that I really never thought he would do. He stole something from his employer. He loves his boss, loves his job, loves the money he makes so this really surprised me. She hasn’t decided what she’s going to do yet, we are meeting with her tomorrow or Friday. I told him she has every right to fire him, and probably should. He can go work at McDonald’s. But on my end I punished him by taking away video games. PS4 and computer games. I said phone too but I can’t really regulate that so I’m not even trying. I told him he can’t play video games until the end of the semester. He has to do his work himself, not cheat and have everything done by May 31. If I get another call that he’s been caught cheating or stealing he will immediately quit his job and quit civil air patrol, which he loves more than anything else and I really think is very good for him. He agreeed to those terms and said all the right things about being sorry, etc.
Here’s my big problem and I need the collective wisdom of the ffa: I suspected last night and busted him tonight of waiting til I went to bed and sneaking to his computer and playing games. before I went to bed I clicked around on his computer and saw that he last played siege today. TODAY!! I hid in the hallway, I even set up a stool because I thought it might take some time. But no. As soon as I sounded like I went to bed he comes creeping out. I asked him what he was doing and if he’s playing games. He said no. I reminded him I don’t often ask questions I don’t already know the answer to and he just went back to bed.
His dad is playing a gig at night this week and busy with work during the day so I hadn’t told him anything about the stealing. So I came to our room and told him everything and he said go pull the cpu. So I did that. But now what?? What do I do with this lying, cheating, stealing, idiot kid??!!
He’s been caught in lies. Nothing major but enough that I don’t trust his word.
He’s gotten caught a few different times cheating in online classes. I keep telling him he’s not smarter than the computers.
This week he did something that I really never thought he would do. He stole something from his employer. He loves his boss, loves his job, loves the money he makes so this really surprised me. She hasn’t decided what she’s going to do yet, we are meeting with her tomorrow or Friday. I told him she has every right to fire him, and probably should. He can go work at McDonald’s. But on my end I punished him by taking away video games. PS4 and computer games. I said phone too but I can’t really regulate that so I’m not even trying. I told him he can’t play video games until the end of the semester. He has to do his work himself, not cheat and have everything done by May 31. If I get another call that he’s been caught cheating or stealing he will immediately quit his job and quit civil air patrol, which he loves more than anything else and I really think is very good for him. He agreeed to those terms and said all the right things about being sorry, etc.
Here’s my big problem and I need the collective wisdom of the ffa: I suspected last night and busted him tonight of waiting til I went to bed and sneaking to his computer and playing games. before I went to bed I clicked around on his computer and saw that he last played siege today. TODAY!! I hid in the hallway, I even set up a stool because I thought it might take some time. But no. As soon as I sounded like I went to bed he comes creeping out. I asked him what he was doing and if he’s playing games. He said no. I reminded him I don’t often ask questions I don’t already know the answer to and he just went back to bed.
His dad is playing a gig at night this week and busy with work during the day so I hadn’t told him anything about the stealing. So I came to our room and told him everything and he said go pull the cpu. So I did that. But now what?? What do I do with this lying, cheating, stealing, idiot kid??!!