Parental Advice

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Originally Posted by qimissung

Yes, I think it's good to bring stuff up, although it never seemed to help my kids at the time. I have heard that we also tend to hang out with people who are similar in interests and outlook. I mean, that's true in general, so why wouldn't it also be true when were teenagers, whatever kind of teenagers we happened to be?

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I think it's true we do associate with people like ourselves, so if it weren't this guy, I might have run into drugs from someone else. Who knows?

The advice may not help in the moment, but it does stick with you as you become an adult and decide how you want to raise your own child.

Eh, my parents are emotional shells who barely noticed me growing up. My father was too busy working 14 hour days to support the family, and my mother was too busy up in her bedroom all day being insane. As long as I maintained my grades she refrained from psychotic breakdowns and we were all happy.

Also, they probably would have been much happier if I was screwing the girls instead of the other things I did during my slightly wilder high school days. Though, I was never more than a sexual rebel, not much drinking or drugs.

We are influenced by our peers much more than parents - with some exceptions. I always determined I would try most things, but some wines can only be sipped occasionally - if at all.

I agree, when we are teenagers we are influenced by our peers more so than our parents. If a kid is raised in a balanced home, they will mostly turn down drugs- there will be no need to take the stuff. It's the at-risk kids you worry about, when they are confronted by peer pressure. There are no parents around to talk to them.