and we're making a mistake letting steve get away with this matter with him all of a sudden anyway used to be a nice a big kid like jimmy not jennie drage anymore not even up the up harry to down i want to talk this thing over before and i want to do that now i know he came in far too late last night we don't even know what time he came in last night except it was after three a m now just a minute harry steve is almost grown up and don't say anything until i see he's old enough to know right from wrong molly thought was telling me she had exactly the same trouble with bob a few years ago and she left him absolutely alone for long he was keeping sensible hours without a word from any steve does not like bob you know it's the drop of homework of one of the gang calls up for not showing much faith in your own son that's nonsense i'm worried about his schoolwork is he going to get through high school and go to college or they know right now it doesn't look too hopeful i'm telling you what he needs and what every kid needs he needs to be told what to do and if he doesn't do it we punish him that's all there is to it i remember you telling me how strict your father was how you used to sneak out because you thought his rules were unfair while they were unfair to you told me you behaved worse because he was so strict you up act as though we weren't concerned at all not say anything or not and now will probably be down at any moment we ought to look as though we haven't even thought about you know you'll probably have a perfectly good explanation for why he was so late that night then he'll to apple pie flow where your folks mad at you when you came in last night mine where they were setting up waiting for me started to yell at me right then and there you're not in by ten they seem to think you're robbing a lady that are taken dope and something you know my dad said to me he said he'd beat the tar out of me but going if i ever stayed on one doesn't want to clog again what do you think i am an eight year old ted i don't know why fox and i had quite a talk this morning about staying up late may understand why i stayed up late last night they pretty well convinced me it wasn't a good idea you know what i do with my dad but anything i me i leave home i wouldn't stand for what he's got to give me that stuff i don't mind a few rules as long as they say the same the trouble was enough not one word we said to steve about the hours he keeps and it got worse every weekend for the last three weeks now it's on a weekday early it's eight o'clock and he's not down yet and  south the way molly thought and said bob did that's not the way to handle species though look at his last trip card and see how much he's learned doesn't seem to care about earning any money just spending mine and having a good time i know i don't want to let him boilen lie that that's exactly what we're doing though and what gets me so cocky comes and goes without a word to us seems to take all this for granted there is something to be said for good old fashioned discipline maybe you are right harry i don't know what to do i'll let you handle it then i'll straighten him out the oh you did manage to get up this morning i guess i didn't hear the alarm go off my you kind of you feel sort of tired i should think anyone with any common sense hit you all the sudden but steve your father is terribly worried about your school work you know we want you to go to college next year you just don't seem to king can treat me like a kid oh no well listen to this young man considering your last propose card you're staying in every night for a week and study starting tonight it's my business what i do with my time you don't seem to have enough common sense to know what to do about anything and here's something else for you to think about i'm cutting off your allowance for a week as punishment for your rudeness but dead it's cool that the week from tomorrow night i gotta go i mean gene you'll be counting on and letting my last to pay for it nobody but yourself to blame you start earning some money of your own for a change you wouldn't get stuck like that if you can't decide between your schoolwork and having a good time then i'll decide for you i said you don't say anything about this to me for we had all  know understand i understand this much you'll stay in every night for a week and study and there'll be no al was needed they will be a different person from now on he's different now got to find a better way to discipline him why can't we talk things over with him try to make him realize steve's parents have obviously created a bad situation his mother assumed that steve knew what he should do and that's failed to give him guidance steve's father has assumed that laying down the law was enough where both assumptions wrong  you may react in a way that could seriously affect his future education and work as well as his personality development if you were steve's parents what would you do