Thanks everyone for your replies, I feel better knowing I'm not the only parent that feels this way. I have told DS that his friend can sleepover at our house instead of the other way around. DS was telling me this morning that his friend asked him to look after his pocket money for him because he always spends it straight away. DS said why don't you give it to your mum to look after, he replied my mum would spend it on the pokies. Now I know why she is never home. Poor kid, I feel sorry for him.

Regards,
Dianne