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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 528405" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Trust your gut. ALWAYS. It won't steer you wrong no matter how often your kids/husband/therapist/psychiatrist/whomever tells you it is wrong. Esp trust it when it says a difficult child is in trouble. Your gut instincts are a gift from whatever you believe created us to ensure the survival of the species. It does not lie, and it especially does not lie about your kids. Period. Ever.</p><p></p><p>That second page is far more likely to be the truth and something the parents know nothing about. Before you confront difficult child and he calls to tell his friend, print out the posts and take a copy to the friend's parents. If they get angry with you and difficult child, well, they won't want their precious child to hang out with difficult child. If they believe you and appreciate it, then you have an ally who will help you thwart the kids' efforts to be delinquents. Hopefully. difficult child will be angry, of course, but tough luck. He and his friends should not do things they don't want people to know about nad maybe this is a good lesson in NEVER putting anything online that you don't want people to know about. Esp as many employers check facebook and other social media before hiring and can/will/do fire people for things on their social media pages.</p><p></p><p>Second, the maple syrup smell. I did some googling and came up with 3 things. One is maple syrup urine disease, which since difficult child is over 3 you don't have to worry about. It is a disease wehre the body cannot break down certain amino acids because of a lack of an enzyme - it is very serious but it is there from birth so there is NO way difficult child cuold have it and you not know about it by now.</p><p></p><p>Some protein powders do give off this odor, according to quite a few body building pages I saw. Something in the type of amino acids (protein) in them has this distinct smell. I do remember it from when I was experimenting with some a few yrs ago. It comes out through your urine and sweat with these.</p><p></p><p>The last possibility, and probably the most probably one, is fenugreek. It is a plant, used as an herbal supplement for many things including increasing the flow of milk in nursing moms. I have known lots of people who use it and it is quite safe. I used to know some people who sold drugs. Odd relationship as they lived in my apartment complex in college and thought I was their little sister. Used to warn me when not to be around if they had something big happening and often threatened to kick my tushie and the cajones of anyone who tried to sell me drugs, which I found totally bizarre, Know what I mean?? I always used to bring that out in guys - the little sister protective thing - drove me NUTS with some guys but I never would have dated these guys anyway. I just always was baking and they came around sometimes. Easier to pass out cookies/brownies to the neighbors than to ignore them. </p><p></p><p>ANYWAY, they would often cut weed with any crumbly herbal substance. I am willing to bet that someone told the boys they could get high if they smoked some of 'this' and the 'this' they gave the boys was fenugreek or else pot cut with fenugreek. I dont' know how expensive it is, but they would probably use anything to cut the weed - few dealers really care what they are cutting product with. Eating a lot of fenugreek results in it coming out through sweat/pores and it smells like maple syrup due to some chemical in it. Explains why a guy I dated had a mom who reeked of maple syrup. I thought it was some weird perfume - she was really strange and I didn't really want to ask what it was. I was afraid she would tell me, Know what I mean?? </p><p></p><p>Unless difficult child spilled a lot of syrup on himself, these are probably the main reasons he would smell like maple syrup.</p><p></p><p>Drug test him. That should be a consequence for being somewhere he won't tell you, and with a kid with a facebook page bragging about that koi. But make sure you hve a printout of the page put up to show his mom and dad BEFORE you tell him.</p><p></p><p>Just because he said he would not smoke/use means NOTHING. Once they are teens they totally lose any bit of sense they ever had and they start doing even stupider stuff. You also might consider putting one of those tracking thingies on his phone so you can know where he is by logging on to his phone. Technology can be a good thing sometimes, esp with a kid hwo keeps lying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 528405, member: 1233"] Trust your gut. ALWAYS. It won't steer you wrong no matter how often your kids/husband/therapist/psychiatrist/whomever tells you it is wrong. Esp trust it when it says a difficult child is in trouble. Your gut instincts are a gift from whatever you believe created us to ensure the survival of the species. It does not lie, and it especially does not lie about your kids. Period. Ever. That second page is far more likely to be the truth and something the parents know nothing about. Before you confront difficult child and he calls to tell his friend, print out the posts and take a copy to the friend's parents. If they get angry with you and difficult child, well, they won't want their precious child to hang out with difficult child. If they believe you and appreciate it, then you have an ally who will help you thwart the kids' efforts to be delinquents. Hopefully. difficult child will be angry, of course, but tough luck. He and his friends should not do things they don't want people to know about nad maybe this is a good lesson in NEVER putting anything online that you don't want people to know about. Esp as many employers check facebook and other social media before hiring and can/will/do fire people for things on their social media pages. Second, the maple syrup smell. I did some googling and came up with 3 things. One is maple syrup urine disease, which since difficult child is over 3 you don't have to worry about. It is a disease wehre the body cannot break down certain amino acids because of a lack of an enzyme - it is very serious but it is there from birth so there is NO way difficult child cuold have it and you not know about it by now. Some protein powders do give off this odor, according to quite a few body building pages I saw. Something in the type of amino acids (protein) in them has this distinct smell. I do remember it from when I was experimenting with some a few yrs ago. It comes out through your urine and sweat with these. The last possibility, and probably the most probably one, is fenugreek. It is a plant, used as an herbal supplement for many things including increasing the flow of milk in nursing moms. I have known lots of people who use it and it is quite safe. I used to know some people who sold drugs. Odd relationship as they lived in my apartment complex in college and thought I was their little sister. Used to warn me when not to be around if they had something big happening and often threatened to kick my tushie and the cajones of anyone who tried to sell me drugs, which I found totally bizarre, Know what I mean?? I always used to bring that out in guys - the little sister protective thing - drove me NUTS with some guys but I never would have dated these guys anyway. I just always was baking and they came around sometimes. Easier to pass out cookies/brownies to the neighbors than to ignore them. ANYWAY, they would often cut weed with any crumbly herbal substance. I am willing to bet that someone told the boys they could get high if they smoked some of 'this' and the 'this' they gave the boys was fenugreek or else pot cut with fenugreek. I dont' know how expensive it is, but they would probably use anything to cut the weed - few dealers really care what they are cutting product with. Eating a lot of fenugreek results in it coming out through sweat/pores and it smells like maple syrup due to some chemical in it. Explains why a guy I dated had a mom who reeked of maple syrup. I thought it was some weird perfume - she was really strange and I didn't really want to ask what it was. I was afraid she would tell me, Know what I mean?? Unless difficult child spilled a lot of syrup on himself, these are probably the main reasons he would smell like maple syrup. Drug test him. That should be a consequence for being somewhere he won't tell you, and with a kid with a facebook page bragging about that koi. But make sure you hve a printout of the page put up to show his mom and dad BEFORE you tell him. Just because he said he would not smoke/use means NOTHING. Once they are teens they totally lose any bit of sense they ever had and they start doing even stupider stuff. You also might consider putting one of those tracking thingies on his phone so you can know where he is by logging on to his phone. Technology can be a good thing sometimes, esp with a kid hwo keeps lying. [/QUOTE]
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