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He has a problem with anger management, that he deals with by hitting things. I told him buy a punching bag. Tomorrow is his birthday and he turns 18. He also comes into several thousand dollars in cash and about 25,000 tied up in CDs, an inheritance from the sale of his birth mother's house after she passed away. I explained about it, and instead of getting that greedy gleam in his eye, he just asked if I could get him about $50 to play with. I was impressed. Of course, he will get money crazy and go on a spending spree pretty soon, but once I talked about a friend who was going to come into some money, and said the wise thing to do if that happened was to keep some of it in cash and tie the rest up in CDs so you wouldn't spend it all too fast. And at the time he thought that was a good idea.

And he told me I should do that for him if he ever did. and it has been done.

And he's stayed out of trouble for a year, except for one traffic ticket.

And I've almost got him talked into seriously considering going into the military once he finishes his GED. His grandfather was career Army, and both sides of our family have long histories of military service, which we talk of proudly, so he may very well do it.

It was like a good visit even if it was just to go to the doctors. I forgot how hyper he is (but not in a way I can't deal with, being that way runs in my family, too), and how much I miss the booger since he's moved in with his brother.

Did warn him not to let his brother weedle too much money out of him, though....