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But really he is not that bad, he never gets in trouble at school, he doesn't do drugs or vape and is an all A student, my question was have you ever met a teen who acts like an adult
I've met plenty of teens who acted like adults, but usually it was not because their parents had given them money and/or cars, but because the parents who should have been raising them had abdicated their responsibilities. More than a few of them turned out to be successful adults despite not having been given the financial and parenting leg(s) up that your child has been given.
Your child's financial interests and activities, while admirable, don't necessarily mean that he's behaving as a adult would. It just means that he's using the money that his father has gifted him over the years and the money that he's earned in a clever way with little risk to himself. That being said, it would be wise to continue to encourage him in this interest of his. It might give him a more definite direction in determining what he'd like to do to one day earn his living.
As for the car, that's a concern that you and your husband brought upon yourselves. Deal with it accordingly. It's not as if he'll legally be able to go anywhere at anytime anytime in the near future. (Assuming here, that he's at least fifteen and a half at present and will have a "Cinderella license" between the ages of sixteen and eighteen.)
But why should I run things? Just to be an *******? Why not let him control his life and I control mine? That's how I've been doing things and its turning out to be very successful.
Apparently not if your on here complaining about him yelling at his friends dad and how you can't discipline him. He may be gifted in investing money, but he is still a child and needs guidelines.
The OP is talking out of both sides of her mouth. Her initial post is complaining that they have lost control of her kid, now she's saying how wonderful her kid is and why would she do anything to change him.
Either the OP is not the mother and is actually the kid, or the OP needs some professional counciling. She sounds very confused. If this post is from the kid (which is actually what it sounds like), then he's not as special as he thinks. Lots of kids are very savvy about financials, mostly because their parents taught them well. And yes, all his accounts have his parents name on them and they can take them away from him.
Last edited by carnivalday; 05-18-2019 at 05:51 AM..
He's not acting like an adult at all. He's acting like a spoiled brat who has too much money thanks to his parents, who want to indulge his every whim.
Adults think of others. They pay all of their own expenses (rent/mortgage, utility bills, etc.). They usually volunteer or otherwise give back to the community. They don't get into little snits. They generally cooperate with other members of the household.
I think that when he does become an actual adult, reality will hit him upside the head and he won't know what to do.
That's the same passion that marks Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump: they've all done very well.
He wants to go to NYU or Upenn and then become an investment banker on Wall st
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