Suggestions for 15 year old boy

19lottie82

i'd second the boxing. chances are there is a local gym near you and most of the people who run them have experience of keeping kids off the streets

Savvy_Sue

olibrofiz wrote: »

Whoever mentioned horse riding - my friends son got interested in horses because her ex was a sports reporter. he had his first riding lesson at 15

progressed to a job as a groom at a racing stables - 15 years on he lives in australia, has jockeys that work for him, & a comfortable lifestyle :cool:

That was me, purely because I'm in the Newbury area several times a year, and groan when I realise it's race day because the traffic is so heavy!

And it's the kind of thing you can take up as a teenager, and you can't muck a horse about.

lemon26

I would suggest seeing if he would be interested in joining one of the Cadet forces. I am an instructor in the Army Cadet Force and was in the Air Cadets when I was much younger, so I have seen things from both perspectives.

We have some cadets who their school consider unteachable and, to be blunt, little toerags. However, with us, they are fine and do what we ask, when we ask - maybe this is because we treat them like young adults (note, I don't call them kids / children, but cadets) and they do various things they couldn't do (legally) anywhere else. So far we have taken cadets on expeditions into the countryside where they navigate etc and us adults are there for safety cover and instruction if required, the cadets go shooting with various weapons, depending on their age and stage of training and go to various camps (weekends away, fortnights away etc).

If he joins he would meet a group of fellow cadets who all have something in common - they want to be there - and he will make plenty of friends from his unit (detachment), area (company) and region (battalion).

It might be worth having a look on the cadet websites and see what you and he think.

Edit: by the way, none of the Cadet Forces recruit or 'push' cadets towards joining the Regular forces, we are a youth organisation supported in part by the Ministry of Defence. This support gives us the right to wear the uniform, use MoD facilities etc and conduct certian activities however this is where is it ends. We do have quite a few cadets join the Regular Forces, however they have joined the cadets as they wished to join the Regulars when they were old enough.

squirrelchops

jackyann wrote: »

One of the reasons I qualified my reply is that in my experience, it is used differently in different authorities. I have definitely had to use CAF in very similar situations to the one described, and have definitely had to use it to get help for LACs. It is very difficult!

Well it shouldn't be as by its very definition a CAF is for tier 2 level of threshold i.e. before social services intervention.