Posted by sunny10 on May 5, 2005, at 8:28:31
In reply to Re: please dont redirect... » justyourlaugh, posted by Tamar on May 4, 2005, at 18:45:14
kids should not be smoking dope.
justyourlaugh's son has been exposed to this other child and is probably confused and hurting that his friend would rather smoke dope than be with jyl's son.
And jyl has been a "surrogate mother" to this dope-smoking child. For whatever the reason and whatever the statistics.
jyl- my advice would be NOT to "rat out the child", but to talk to him about the dangers of drugs as if you were his parent. Tell him you smell it on him if you don't want to involve your son in the "discovery part". His parent/s have given you that right by relinquishing their parental control in the afternoons. At the same time, you need to make it very clear that if you ever hear of him doing this again, you will take him straight to his parent/s.
I know this may sound unorthodox, but so are latchkey kids, we have to move with the times and, above all, PROTECT OUR OWN KIDS. If the other child's parent/s give you a hard time for "daring to speak to their child about drugs and not going straight to them", you tell them that they dare to leave their child free to roam about influencing YOUR child with their behavior!
Okay, that's MY opinion on the matter... strictly my own... take it as you like...
-sunny10
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