how i deal with my teenager cousin? He is 13 but he is getting himself into some stuff in the...

Frank52 · 70-79, M

At 13, he's his parents responsibility. If he survives the cancer, which I'm sure we all sincerely hope he will, he will take on the responsibility himself when he becomes an adult legally. As you are young yourself, he might listen to you rather than his parents. Otherwise, as keepitsimple said, you could speak with his parents, who perhaps actually aren't that bothered or as concerned as you. If that doesn't work I fear you will be watching the beginning of a tragic personal life.

Mordi · 31-35, M

If he likes hacking, magically direct him towards beneficial white hat hacking and he might end up finding vulnerabilities for companies and getting paid a lot for it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

KaiserSolze · 46-50, F

He has cancer leave him alone. That's my opinion.

My son who wasn't ill did a bit of hacking as a kid, age 13, he told me. I said "where's the memory stick. He said "I threw it down the drain" I said "well don't worry about it then and don't do it again"

He 20 now he works fixing Lorries and does a bit Forex trading in his spare time.

He would cut all his schools computer systems out whenever he was in trouble so they couldn't write on his record. If people annoyed him online he crashed there routers and set fire to one of them. He wrote mods for games and got banned from Xbox repeatedly. He wrote a few viruses. He hacked loads of Facebook profiles.

My point it kids now need to learn computers more than ever, it doesn't always lead to hacking NASA and being raided by the FBI. Mostly it's pretty harmless.

Let your cousin who has cancer have some normal semblance of modern childhood.

And if the worst comes to the worst as already said 🔨 or🔥 🤷

I think its sort of normal. Let him have some normal.