Thread: update to: hes pushing me over the edge

Original thread was about how I am trying to tutor my nephew who lives with my Mom and how he lies and is failing school. His Dad died in May of this year. The one thing I touched on is how the only thing he does is play games. My Mom is on a fixed income and has basic cable, she has a tv hooked up in his room for him, it does not cost extra with her cable company to do this they allow unlimited tvs. Anyway she sent the money to pay the basic cable she has by her sister and guess what he got his other grandma to take him to the cable company and he signed (he is 16, his other grandma did not sign anything, she also did not ask my Mom if this was ok) to have cable hi speed internet turned on so he could hook up a modem to his playstation and play games online. My Mom's bill went from 39.00 to 80.00. I called the cable company and I told them he was only 16 and not authorized to change her cable since it is only in her name. They said that they would not have allowed him to leave with the equipment unless he was accompanied by an adult, big deal she did not sign anything, he did, and that my Mom would have to pay the bill. I called my nephew and told him to get it unhooked, he said it was only 20.00 a month and that he was paying it out of his allowance I asked him if he had 80.00 he said no but he only owed 20.00. Now get this, he said I was being mean and maybe he should come up here and take my tv away and see how I liked that. Also he has now got my Mom convinced they made a mistake on the bill and she is even considering letting him keep it after he went behind her back and has lied over and over. I specifically asked him if he was online to play those games and he said, no. I told my Mom if it was left to me he would have no gamestation or tv and he would be working for .25 an hr. to pay me back if I had to pay any charges. I am at my wits end, someone has to be the disciplinarian in his life but my Mom is sabotaging any efforts I make by going along with anything he wants, that is one of the problems he has always gotten what he wants and thinks everything should just be handed to him. I am upset to say the least.