And my son is already driving me crazy!!!! 

How can a 16 year not be able to find something to do.

Damn after 9 months of school I had a whole list of things to do as soon as they let me out.

Maybe he needs to get a job, just a thought. But that would fill his time up some.

TD

He tried that but I think he waited too long and all the summer jobs were pretty much gone. He does work on weekends as a scorekeeper for the Jr basketball league and he is the student manager for the HS team which takes about 2 hours a day.

The rest of the time he spends bugging me to take him places.

tell me about it.i work third shift and every afternoon i get up to find the kids watching tv.when i was a teenager it would have taken an act of god to keep me in the house

I know the feeling Lucky. My 17-year-old daughter walks around the house saying "I'm bored." I tell her to clean her room or go swimming or ride her bike or walk her dog BUT noooooo that takes to much energy. AND when she's not saying "I'm bored" she's asking me for money...sheesh.

At least he WANTS to get outta the house. Mine never wanted to. Come in, go to his room, shut the door, get on the daggone computer...for the rest of the day/night. I mean, he IS in Web Design, now, so it's a natural progression, but
part of me thinks that's half the reason the man hasn't ever had a serious girlfriend. WHO wants to sit around and watch their old man "play" on the computer??? Seriously...WHO? Take your son out, when you can, but keep pushin' him to find a job. There's a high turn-over in the summer month's, with kids lookin' at college's and family vacations and such. Besides, if he makes a job, of finding a job, you kill two birds with one stone. He's outta the house, doing something semi-productive, and he's not up your A**. OR...there's always yard work at your house. (Watch how fast he'll find something else to do.  Can you say HOUDINI?)

Ride Free
Tweek

My kids know better than to tell me they're bored! LOL

+1
Spade up a garden, put some plants in & tell him to commence to weeding - Next word you receive will be a post card from Albuquerque

LOL Savage !!! yep nothing like a garden full of weeds or a house full of chores to vacate your kids room real quick like!!! : )

geeze, I wondered around town, had a job, had chores, one would be to scrape and paint the old victorian we lived in, a differendt section every year..........two weeks of it, board naw never..............maybe its time for parents to put a time limit on computers, games, and what not to get them moving for life will be real shocking in the next few years.............make it count.