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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bring these friends into your home regularly  and make sure you judge them for yourself rather than some sort of “reputation” heard from gossipy adults.

Banning an impulsive kid with no other friends from hanging with his only friends is likely a fools task and honestly pretty cruel besides.

Tell him he can only hang out at your house with them for now. Get to know them. Don’t judge them but make sure they know your rules. Have awesome snacks and otherwise a relaxed environment and good video games. It’s my experience that these kinds of kids aren’t bad (after all they are including your son, who apparently is a bit of a school pariah)  just poorly supervised and/or struggling with some home problems. Often these are the first kids to engage with me as a parent and be better with my kids when they don’t want to risk the same space of my home.  [/quote]

NP and this can be true but still be careful.  My son had a friend like this and we did just that.  We had the kid over and they hung out at our house, not his.  It was that, he wasn’t bad but had zero supervision and the parents were never around. They weren’t home at all and there was no food there.  We made sure our house was safe and there was plenty of food.

But my son met another group who were trouble. These kids skipped school during the day to go vape and would take their parents cars before they had a license to pick each other up.  This was happening at 15.  I did everything to make sure he wasn’t hanging out with them outside of school hours.  No friends were better than this group.  [/quote]

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