When this lad gets older and finds that in the real world no one will do his job for him so he finds ways to make `easy money` and eventually gets caught, will the mother do his prison time or community service for him as well ?

Or will she wring her hands and cry a lot while whimpering,
" but I don`t know where I went wrong, I did everything to make him happy ".

Might sound OTT but its realistic imo. If he ends up a `wrong `un `, she might be shocked about it but I don`t think many of us here will be

Ah, well on one of the few times he's been to school he's obviously already learnt to be a wrong 'un as my son and his friends say the police were called as he had stolen some stuff. He's at a different school to my son, but there are only two here and heavily linked so the kids all know what goes on in each others.

As for his Mum, whenever I've had to have words with her in the past she comes out with the phrase 'boys will be boys'..... like I said, I give up!

Yep, my first 'proper' job was in Burger King at the age of 15. Spent all summer working there and missing out on loads cause I was working nights and weekends. Was good for me though.

ok had this with louis.....we did b.
the 1st time out mark helped his to get to know the round,streets etc but that was it.
he didnt like it i wasn't gonna do it, i didn't do it when i was a kid so i aint doing his.
plus we made him see the shop himself, i wasn't gonna do it for him.

I think you're spot on Patch.

This lad is on a hiding to nowhere. Hopefully his mum will see sense and sort him out, but somehow, I doubt it