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<blockquote data-quote="Calamity Jane" data-source="post: 553690" data-attributes="member: 13882"><p>Hi FHW,</p><p>I really respect you for trying to be proactive. One thing I would recommend is that you also talk about the dangers of smoking cigarettes. It was always discussed along with drugs and alcohol at our house, but ironically, the first indication that my easy child son was turning into a difficult child was when he started sneaking cigarettes and hanging out with kids who smoked. That was when he was a freshman in HS. After that, he experimented with alcohol and pot, then went on to harder stuff from there. But cigarettes, believe it or not, was where he started - in the shallow end of the pool, so to speak.</p><p>Another thing I remember in retrospect was that during our talks about the dangers of substance abuse was that he was always trying to find out if his dad smoked weed or drank. I'm a really shy, straight-laced person, so he never even asked me lol (ah, but still waters run deep!), but he was fascinated in a really persistent way. Both my kids are adopted by the way, and I can't figure out why he was fixated on whether Dad smoked pot way back in the '70s, except that if the answer was "yes" then maybe he'd have an excuse. I remember also he was obsessed with "That 70's Show" reruns on TV and the kids were always getting high and it was supposedly hilarious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calamity Jane, post: 553690, member: 13882"] Hi FHW, I really respect you for trying to be proactive. One thing I would recommend is that you also talk about the dangers of smoking cigarettes. It was always discussed along with drugs and alcohol at our house, but ironically, the first indication that my easy child son was turning into a difficult child was when he started sneaking cigarettes and hanging out with kids who smoked. That was when he was a freshman in HS. After that, he experimented with alcohol and pot, then went on to harder stuff from there. But cigarettes, believe it or not, was where he started - in the shallow end of the pool, so to speak. Another thing I remember in retrospect was that during our talks about the dangers of substance abuse was that he was always trying to find out if his dad smoked weed or drank. I'm a really shy, straight-laced person, so he never even asked me lol (ah, but still waters run deep!), but he was fascinated in a really persistent way. Both my kids are adopted by the way, and I can't figure out why he was fixated on whether Dad smoked pot way back in the '70s, except that if the answer was "yes" then maybe he'd have an excuse. I remember also he was obsessed with "That 70's Show" reruns on TV and the kids were always getting high and it was supposedly hilarious. [/QUOTE]
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