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To: Brumar89 who wrote (77112)	4/6/2000 11:07:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm assuming your kids are pretty young yet. 4 and 10. I'm wondering how you intend to handle this issue when they are in their teens. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I know enough about child-raising to know that any statement starting with "I'm going to..." is probably nonsense. In a previous post, you said you (wisely) stopped using when you became a parent. Thinking about it, I recall that there was some overlap. I remember a day when my son was about 3; I was stoned and we spent a few hours in the sandbox with a bunch of toy trucks. We both had a great time. Would you have a problem if your kids use drugs exactly as you once did? If they start at the age I started, I won't have any say in the matter. But they are strong secure kids with solid senses of humour and a good deal of common sense. At a certain point there is nothing we can do but trust to what we've taught them and let them go. To a parent who has spent very little time with a child, I can imagine that being pretty horrifying. I don't fall into that category at all, and I think I'll trust them. Remind me of that when Joey turns 18. Not to say I won't worry; I will. But no more than I'd worry about his driving, or rock climbing, or kayaking, or any number of other things which he will do. Which means that if you aren't seriously screwed up to begin with, you can use drugs with no ill effects. Which of us can say with any confidence that we're not seriously screwed up? In seriousness, it makes sense to warn kids about drugs, as it makes sense to warn them about the hazards involved in a lot of the activities they will almost certainly experiment with. But we shouldn't be too surprised if they seem to be ignoring the warnings. Obviously, I'd react very differently if, say, opiates or amphetamines were involved, not that I didn't dabble at times in those. Secure people with common sense don't go beyond dabbling in those waters.