Drugs

[rgraham666]

They can't do that, zoot.

If they admitted they were lying about that, they'd have to admit they are lying about a lot of other things.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Bloody hell! This took off overnight!

Had to speed read a lot cos I'm late already. I have just under two hours to decide what to do.

Thank you for everyone's input

 

[TxRad]

Bloody hell! This took off overnight!

Had to speed read a lot cos I'm late already. I have just under two hours to decide what to do.

Thank you for everyone's input

Good luck....

At least someone is trying.....

 

[arienette]

Bloody hell! This took off overnight!

Had to speed read a lot cos I'm late already. I have just under two hours to decide what to do.

Thank you for everyone's input

Good luck and I can't wait to hear how it went!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

They can't do that, zoot.

If they admitted they were lying about that, they'd have to admit they are lying about a lot of other things.

Yeah. I've seen this happen again and again with generation after generation. The people who design these anti-drug programs have never used drugs, have no idea of what drugs are like no idea why people use drugs or how and why people get into trouble with drugs.

Officer Friendly comes out and lectures about the evils of marijuana and half the kids in the audience know more about grass than he does. What lesson do they learn when he equates marijuana with heroin? They figure, "Well, you don't know shit about grass. You probably don't know shit about heroin either. I can handle weed, so maybe I'll give heroin a try."

I used drugs like crazy in college and pretty much up to the point where I got married and had kids. When the kids got old enough to start experimenting with drugs and alcohol, here's pretty much what I told them:

(1) The Cardinal Rule: NEVER EVER EVER get behind the wheel of a car or let anyone drive who's so much as sniffed the cap of a bottle of booze or been anywhere near any dope.

(2) I know you're going to drink because everyone does. Drink all you want at home and I'll even buy you the booze, but you clean up the puke and the mess.

(3) You're going to drink outside of the house too and there's nothing I can do to stop you, but remember, the Cardinal Rule still applies.

(4) You're going to fool around with drugs too, and again, I can't stop you. I fooled around too. Marijuana's not so bad but it's very illegal, and if you get caught you're in deep shit. We could lose our home if you get caught.

(5) A line of coke or a hit of some designer drug isn't going to kill you, but there are some seriously dangerous and nasty drugs out there that you should stay away from, and NEVER inject anything into your body. God gave you a liver for a purpose - to filter out the really evil shit. Whenever you play with needles you'rer playing with death.

I didn't sit my kids down and present this as a powerpoint lecture, but they understood.

What I wanted more than anything was for them to feel they could come to me with any problems they might have, and that wasn't going to happen if I lectured or lied about dope and booze.

I'm not recommending this approach to anyone, but it's worked over here. My 18 year-old son likes his beer and Captain Morgan or whatever god-awful stuff he and his friends drink these days, and I know when they're out in the backyard smoking a joint around the outdoor fireplace (luckily our neighbors are cool too), but he can pretty much take it or leave it.

The girls are 15 now and one of them's not interested in that stuff at all and the other got drunk 2 or 3 times with some girlfriends and got pretty sick afterwards and now she stays away from it. We'll see what happens when they start hanging around with guys more

For me, drugs are pretty much a part of life these days, and kids will have to learn to deal with them just like they have to learn how to deal with sex. The stuff they tell them in school is the drug equivalent of preaching total sexual abstinence, and to my mind, it works just about as well. i.e. it doesn't.

--Zoot

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

My teenage kids don't drink or smoke or take drugs. They're pretty unique among their peers for that, but they've been brought up to be proud of uniqueness.

I resisted peer pressure on alcohol and cigarettes as a teenager, but I took a lot of drugs.

 

[scheherazade_79]

It went well. There were a couple of dodgy moments - like when the principal walked in 5 minutes into the lesson and decided to observe... and when a couple of the girls had a screaming fit at some of the pictures.

But they'll never forget that lesson.

And I'm still in a job.

And I've been asked to put the presentation on disk so that other members of staff can have a copy

 

[damppanties]

It went well. There were a couple of dodgy moments - like when the principal walked in 5 minutes into the lesson and decided to observe... and when a couple of the girls had a screaming fit at some of the pictures.

But they'll never forget that lesson.

And I'm still in a job.

And I've been asked to put the presentation on disk so that other members of staff can have a copy

Yay you.

 

[oggbashan]

...

And I'm still in a job.

And I've been asked to put the presentation on disk so that other members of staff can have a copy

But if you do that - you won't have a job. They can just play the disk.

Well done.

Og

 

[TxRad]

It went well. There were a couple of dodgy moments - like when the principal walked in 5 minutes into the lesson and decided to observe... and when a couple of the girls had a screaming fit at some of the pictures.

But they'll never forget that lesson.

And I'm still in a job.

And I've been asked to put the presentation on disk so that other members of staff can have a copy

I'm glad it worked out....

I wasn't real sure how we'd slippy you a file over there.....

Think of the screaming fits as positive punctuation marks on a good presentation....

 

[arienette]

It went well. There were a couple of dodgy moments - like when the principal walked in 5 minutes into the lesson and decided to observe... and when a couple of the girls had a screaming fit at some of the pictures.

But they'll never forget that lesson.

And I'm still in a job.

And I've been asked to put the presentation on disk so that other members of staff can have a copy

Yay! I'm so glad it went well.