While I agree somewhat with what you're saying, if he's feeling down in the dumps, then that's the way he's feeling, telling him to grow up 9 times out of 10 just doesn't work as instead, he'll wonder why everyone else has grown up but he hasn't. For all we know his dad said he HAD to work for him, and support the family, we just don't know for sure that he doesn't have it harder than we did at his age.