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That's such an influential age. I'm not at all sure I'd have told mine in the early teens had he not begun asking very specific questions. They were having the anti-drug education in his school when he was that age. It really would have been safer almost to simply let him go with that flow for a couple more years believing 100% of the propaganda.
Yes, they haven't asked me anything about drugs yet. Thanks for your reply, Birdgirl and everyone else :). I just worry sometimes, that they are taught that all drugs will kill you or get you behind bars or that you'll amount to nothing.
Stress moderation and responsibilityin their lives in other things, not just drugs. Then slowly work that into the idea that drugs are not harmful if used responsively. All you can do right now is try to teach your children well. Their father's hell did slowly go by and feed them on your dreams. The one they pick's the one you'll know.
It's worrisome, I know. I was the same way. But when my guy was that age, he wasn't exactly discriminating in the way he understood subtleties or shades of info. I'm not sure he could have completely fathomed the differences. That's why I'd have happily left him in the dark for a another few years. By the time he was 16 or 17, he understood degrees of meaning a little better. (We're still working on that at 20.)
Young teenage years are such a funny, squirrelly age. I miss those days!
If you did that, you'd be the coolest parent in the world...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sabron