Poor kid..Sound like his step mother is treating him like a young child..Whatever happen to 10:30 pm bedtime on a school nights & 12 am no school

I don't know what you can do without hurting his feelings...That's a tuff one ..I just bare with it when I had a similar problem
I had a 12 year old boy that came over and played games with my ds when he was 6... He was over my house most of the day...He had a small crush on me as his mom put it...The poor kid parents treating him like dirt....His step father was a son of gun wouldn't let him use his tools to fix his bike & etc He would come over and dh would help him fix the bike...one time dh paid $30 in parts to fix it for him...we told his parents it was a early b-day present from us..2 weeks later he got into trouble and the bike was in the trash.

Get this his so called mom forgot to buy him christmas presents and went out at 10pm on christmas eve night and bought him acouple of cassette tape.I could not believe my ears when she was telling me this

The last I heard he was in prison for breaking and entering

He really was a good kid his parents just didn't see it..they blamed that poor child for everything that went wrong in their life and treated the kid they had together like a angel and gave him everything he wanted