Your kids

When/if you have kids, what do you think you're gonna tell them about pot. I know for a fact, i'm not going to want my kids smoking until at least after their junior year. anytime sooner (i think) is much to soon. Now i know there are many of you that can smoke and not "head down that road". For me, i began to smoke and i headed down the wrong road. My life is really bad right now. And i don't want my kids to fall fool to the desire of being high. God my life sucks so much right now. I'm fucking depressed. No college for me. I'm headed to the local community college. fuck. I feel bad for my parents more than myself. All three of their sons went to a fucking community college at high school. Well i suppose as long as i get my degree i'll be ok. Maybe i'll go to grad school to make up for fucking around in high school.

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don't fuck around in high school, and don't be shy. At the time i thought smoking pot would relieve the pressures of being shy. basically allow me to be extroverted.

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well, ill wait till theyre gonna experiment it by theirselves, or when theyll be like 16-17 ill just come up to the subject and see their opinions bout that. but id like to smoke a spliff later with my kids if i come to have some.

I hope my son is like me and maybe dosent smoke till in his 20's so he can grow into a big man.If he tries it i hope that he tells me about it so i can try and lead him on the right path.I tried it at 15 had 2 cones and was so wasted i hated it i was sick.As a matter of fact i hope that he dosent smoke at all and becomes someone to make a difference in the world.If we dont look after our kids and lead them on the right path who will ?

im hoping 17ish...but it'll prolly be sooner. and ill just tell them id rather not have them smoking pot until they were older...and if they listened, then i wouldnt care at all when they turn 17ish...and if they didnt...then id give them a hard time about it till they were older. just cause im a bastard...but at least they cant get pissed at me, cause i did give em a good offer.

man...im weird, just realised that im talking about kids i dont even have...and i dont even plan on having any...but i would love to have some...just wont work out with my life plan...oh well.

senior in highschool i hope but i started when i was 8 which is WAAAAY too early to smoke herb(cus my big bro smoked and i looked up to him)but ill most likely let him smoke a little when hes around 14-16 but the second i see grades drop then hes done smokin til hes a senior or on his own

I can't wait to have a kid and enlighten him/her about the magic of cannabis. I'll probably wait till he tries it at around 15 or 16 and then smoke with him/her. I just hope my kid isn't really into alcohol.

fuckin, too many kids love the booze WAY too much...i dont even get it...weed is sooo much better

screw that, im never having kids.

Here's my 2 cents on education for my kid: I'm going to give my kid a lot of freedom, i'm not going to nag him about his homework or if he gets bad grades because it's his life. Sure, i want him to succeed but i'm not going to force anything on him. If he wants to mess around, ultimately that's his choice, i'll sit him down and talk to him and try to lead him down the rite road but if he chooses not to listen, then that's up to him. I know some people will disagree with me but that's my opinion.

I dunno I went through the teenage years with the weed drugs booze cigarettes, caffeine..then I got away from most of it..then later I went back to it..

I think we all get many opportunities to get into all this stuff, and we have opportunities to get out of them, so I think sometimes its more a question of your choices and decisions that define your life more than whether or no you try or smoke weed /do other drugs/whatever....

I think its important to strongly inform them about addiction, control over one's self, their options and choices...

You can be a hardass if you want , but in most scenarios I doubt it will be effective..

Oh BTW I have a kid..one, anyway...... :o

yeah i would tell em bout 15-17

I don't have kids, but if I did I wouldn't want them to start until they were about 17 or 18. Just as long as they don't mess up their lives. I tell them that smoking weed more for recreation rather than something to do all the time. ( That last statement sounds strange coming from me considering I smoke everyday.) Basically I just want them to be careful with it and not get into any hard drugs like meth, crack, etc.

I'm gonna smoke weed with my kid from the day he's old enough to hold a joint. I'll introduce him to everything else at age 10. I'll tell him he can come to me for any drug whenever he wants.

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Originally Posted by jacquelyne

I hope my son is like me and maybe dosent smoke till in his 20's so he can grow into a big man.If he tries it i hope that he tells me about it so i can try and lead him on the right path.I tried it at 15 had 2 cones and was so wasted i hated it i was sick.As a matter of fact i hope that he dosent smoke at all and becomes someone to make a difference in the world.If we dont look after our kids and lead them on the right path who will ?

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You almost sound like you think Cannabis is bad... or is it that you don't want him to have a bad trip... maybe i just read it wrong.

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As a matter of fact i hope that he dosent smoke at all and becomes someone to make a difference in the world.

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We do make a difference in the world, not all of us are those "lazy stoners."

i owuld hope around 16 it would be before they even thought about trying weed. but as long as they go to school, work, and dont let it consume their lives, a little smoking isnt that bad. i'd tell them about my past, and what not to do in terms of my fuck ups.

i have 3 kids 2 sons 13 and a duaghter 11 and i refuse to lie to any of them about anything espeically drugs when i feel they are old enough they will be permitted to smoke with me and their mothers but their friends cant smoke with us till they are of age becuase ya just cant trust them to not tell their parents telling a kid that cannibis is as dangerous as cocaine or heroin is just as stupid as stupid gets we already had the DARE program removed from the schools my kids attend because of the blatant lie's being told to the children by these lowlife a^&*holes in 30+ years of smoking cannibis i have never seen any one OD from using weed on the other hand ive attended countless funeral's of freind's who died from cocaine and heroin and alcohol do your kids a favor dont lie to them give them facts not fiction and exagerated horror stories encourage them to find these things out for their selves and let them make there own decisions right or wrong thats the only way they will learn peace jim

hey jacqulyne its not coz u smoke pot that yer nopt responsable

I think i'll tell my children that you will have decisions right and left your whole life. And they really start become a burden as you get older. And each choice is either the right choice, or the wrong choice. Many times, as in doing bad stuff, the wrong choice is to not do it. To think carefully about each choice you make. And understand the consequences of each choice made.

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Originally Posted by powair

I'm gonna smoke weed with my kid from the day he's old enough to hold a joint. I'll introduce him to everything else at age 10. I'll tell him he can come to me for any drug whenever he wants.

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Yea and then the 2nd your son gets pissed at you, lets people know u give him drugs, they drug test him, you go to jail for ahwile... heh :rolleyes:

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Yea and then the 2nd your son gets pissed at you, lets people know u give him drugs, they drug test him, you go to jail for ahwile... heh :rolleyes:

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nuff said...but hopefully since ur givin him/her a lot of freedom, they wont get pissed at you.

now I'm only 19 and not having kids for awhile but I say YES lots of freedom but in the form of choices and if they choose the bad ones they will see the consequences. I will talk to my kid about cannibis and to stay away from the binge boozing I mean whoever said weed is better is right! The grades have to stay up there and not become a burnout. You guys are right just have to lead them in the right direction. Jeez I hope I am a good parent but why am I thinking of that now I don't want kids till I'm like 29!
I want to have fun while I'm young and you can't do that with a kid to come home to early at 8:00 YUCK!!!!

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Originally Posted by powair

I'm gonna smoke weed with my kid from the day he's old enough to hold a joint. I'll introduce him to everything else at age 10. I'll tell him he can come to me for any drug whenever he wants.

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Wow what a responsible parent you're going to be! :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by sawleaf

Wow what a responsible parent you're going to be! :rolleyes:

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That's probably why Im not going to be a parent yo.

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Originally Posted by sawleaf

Wow what a responsible parent you're going to be! :rolleyes:

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define: "responsible parent"

i believe that term is open to interpretation now-a-days.

I found out my parents smoked pot when I was 17, and that same year they starting letting me smoke (although I don't think they knew my sister had already let me try it once), but I wish they'd let me in on it earlier. With my kids, it won't be a question of how many years has passed since the kid crawled out of a vagina but how mature the kid is psychologically. If I ever have children, I will allow them to smoke whenever I deem them mature enough to handle it. And I'm not going to hide it from them, ever, but I won't have to fear getting caught since by then I will have moved to the Netherlands.

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Originally Posted by ermitonto

how many years has passed since the kid crawled out of a vagina.

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how nice :)

Interesting
For those who have read my other posts you know I am a hard core stoner. I
have been smoking for 35+ years. I have been strung out on the hard stuff (coke,
meth, the big H) and broke all those habits. I managed to avoid alcohol and
tobacco, major addictions for people my age. I have four children. They range
from 31 to 22. Two are smokers, two are not. Three of them have at least
experimented with â??illegalâ?� drugs, one is a straight and narrow.
There never was a talking about drugs, I smoked in front of them and when I was
junked or zipped I never hid any part of that. I did not allow or encourage the kids
to smoke, and did my best to discourage any of those habits until they were 18.
The reasons were complicated, mostly involving the legal consequences, and a
father in law in politics. I discouraged tobacco use and alcohol. There were
various consequences for the violations I discovered. Grounding and extra chores
were the most common.
As they reached the age of reason, anywhere from 12 to 15 depending on the
individual personality, I did have â??the talkâ?� with them. Usually in conjunction with
the Birds and Bees conversation. My children had picked up a lot more my life
than from my talk. They knew what they could and could not say to strangers.
They knew more about my mood swings than I did, and they had some real
horror stories about the times I had no memory of. I listened more than I talked. It
was my children that helped me out of my last two â??hardâ?� habits, and I will never
be able to love them enough for what they put up with. I spent a lot of time with
the teachers and school principals explaining that my children are being raised by
political liberals and some of our views and opinions may not match what the
textbooks described as history. History I explained is always written by the
winners.
Anyway when you talk to them they will tell you about Dadâ??s smokes and Momâ??s
smokes. Once my 3rd son caught my eldest son sneaking out of my room and
when he questioned him (ages 11 and 15) he discovered that Dadâ??s home rolls
were pot and the eldest had been raiding my stash for months. ( I just thought I
was rolling larger joints, I wondered where my weed was going). As it seemed
normal, it never struck him that Dad was a pot head. Mom bought her cigarettes
and Dad rolled his own. It seemed simple to him.
I made the choice not to share with the kids until they were 18 and even though
they were smoking long before that and I explained to them the need for
â??plausible deniabilityâ?�. They did cooperate and understood Dad had pissed off
some local politicians and had to at least seem to keep his nose clean or I
wouldnâ??t be able to cook for the kids for a long time.
When everyone was old enough I took them all to Amsterdam and the smokers
and I had a tour of the coffee shops that is a story in it self. By that time my two
non smokers were established as their own people so we spent the mornings
doing family type stuff, Museums, and art galleries, and I spent the evenings with
the two smokers tripping over our own feet. All in all everyone had a great time.
So the question about children and drug use is moot, itâ??s all in how you deal with
your own life and problems. Children will learn from your actions not your
lectures: so live a good life, however you choose to relax. Doctor G

i am very impressed. id give u an award if i could. the only thing i woulda done differently, woulda been to "try" and hide the fact that i smoked weed till they were 15-16 but thats just me and i still think u did a great job...congrats!

Thank you. I have the greatest award possible, my children and I respect each other and do truely care and love each other. I am hoping to sail around the world next year and my #2 son and his wife intend to join me. That could be a heck of a party!! In my experience ,anything you try to hide, just attracts their attention. So we treated it all like normal. God bless their mother, heart of gold and my ex wife. So all I can do is try to teach others, love is the answer. And lies don't spread love. Be Good
Doctor G

i want to smoke with my kids one day, something i have always wanted to do

The really funny one is my 55 and 60 year old friends who only get stoned with my kids these days. "no one else smokes" they tell me " at least when I see your boys I know one of them will have a joint" Yes and share it with you. So imagine having grown up camping and hiking with Dad's friends and now smoking with them while Dad is out of town! Pretty funny!. Doctor G

I WANT THAT :(...i also wanna get baked with my old man...but hes way too conservative.

I always used to think that I'd be the totally cool Dad and let my kids smoke or even smoke with them. Now that I'm 35 and have a 2 year old daughter I'm not so sure anymore. Mainly because I don't want her to be the fuck up that I was. I started smoking when I was 13 and barely graduated high school since I was spending most of my time out getting high with my friends. Since then I've gone on to graduate college, learn a foriegn language, get a good job, etc. , etc. , all while still smoking, so I can't say it ruined my life but it was tough. I'd rather my daughter just stick with school and, if she smokes, start later in life. Then again, the thought of her smoking pot is a lot less scary than the thought of dating. Holy crap, when I think about what I was doing to sweet innocent girls my age when I was 13 or 14. Ahhhhh, being a Daddy is some scary shit.

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Originally Posted by Fengzi

I always used to think that I'd be the totally cool Dad and let my kids smoke or even smoke with them. Now that I'm 35 and have a 2 year old daughter I'm not so sure anymore. Mainly because I don't want her to be the fuck up that I was. I started smoking when I was 13 and barely graduated high school since I was spending most of my time out getting high with my friends. Since then I've gone on to graduate college, learn a foriegn language, get a good job, etc. , etc. , all while still smoking, so I can't say it ruined my life but it was tough. I'd rather my daughter just stick with school and, if she smokes, start later in life. Then again, the thought of her smoking pot is a lot less scary than the thought of dating. Holy crap, when I think about what I was doing to sweet innocent girls my age when I was 13 or 14. Ahhhhh, being a Daddy is some scary shit.

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all u have to do is keep them away from it until they are in grade 12...then weed wont have a factor in their school habits and grades wont drop.

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Originally Posted by powair

I'm gonna smoke weed with my kid from the day he's old enough to hold a joint. I'll introduce him to everything else at age 10. I'll tell him he can come to me for any drug whenever he wants.

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I'm sorry, but that's just horrible. Please, don't have kids until you get your life in order, cuz from what I can tell, your life is a fucking mess right now (trading your iPod for rock, etc.). If you're not a virgin still, I sure hope you make sure whatever guy you happen to be with wears a condom.

Peace.

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Originally Posted by TheLion

I'm sorry, but that's just horrible. Please, don't have kids until you get your life in order, cuz from what I can tell, your life is a fucking mess right now (trading your iPod for rock, etc.). If you're not a virgin still, I sure hope you make sure whatever guy you happen to be with wears a condom.

Peace.

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im inclined to agree