No problems with adults or authorities…other than us, that is.
And again, booze is more normalized. At least here where we live. More relatable too. I can see if he would have a drink and then see how he felt. With weed, it’s more risky. Once you have the stuff in your system, it’s in there. You have to ride it thru.
As someone once said, you don’t “try” drugs.
You do drugs. You can “try” rock climbing, but when you’re doing the drugs it goes inside your body. You’re no longer trying them. They are inside of you.
Troll. The thread has jumped the shark.
Underline added. Exactly the same as with alcohol.
And with less potency.
Granted, but you’ve got to admit. As far as emotional support or commiserating, a mom saying “I found a bottle of Fireball in my son’s room” seems to be less jarring than “I found a weed vape and THC carts in my son’s room.”
The latter almost guaranteeing that their sons are no longer allowed to socialize with mine because they do drugs. It’s next level.
Teenagers engage in risky behavior. If you think they can all moderate their alcohol intake and “see how they feel”, you are being completely unrealistic. What’s more, you are drawing conclusions about pot out of fear and ignorance, rather than informed point of view.
There is nothing in what you describe about your kid that seems in any way abnormal. Your kid isn’t headed on a collision course with being a crack addict or whatever it is you imagine in your fevered nightmare scenario. He’s a normal kid just trying to figure stuff out.
His biggest problem is a paranoid, possibly neurotic mother, who has lost control of her emotions due to lack of information and ability to maintain perspective and proportionate response to common parenting challenges. Furthermore, either you completely misunderstood your therapist, heard only what you wanted to hear, or are being manipulated and bilked by her. The latter being least likely but not out of the question. Either way, get a second opinion. For your own peace of mind and for the sanity of those on whom you project your fears and punish with your poor judgement.
Wait, this is a therapist that you and not your son is seeing? So the therapist only knows what you tell them about the son? It seems inappropriate for them to comment at all that it’s a habit or not, that it’s going to continue or not. Because like it or not, you are very definitely coloring what you say in your sessions.
It’s a fucking troll.
No, Dewey. Same therapist. For family and individual
Listen to me.
My 3 adult children were perfect teens. And now are perfect adults.
(If you believe that I have a nice bridge to sell you)
Nobody passes through their teenage/young adult ages perfectly. None. Zero. Nada.
You’re a Troll.
(You might need to buy that bridge)
Read the original post/
Have a 15y daughter so have skin in the game.
OP, you need to get a grip babe. They’re smoking weed doll, they’re not tooting crack.
I’d be grateful if I were you. Your teenage boys could be so much worse than having a blaze.
Teddie, is your daughter smoking weed?
I know for a fact she’s had a ‘drink’, as In got a bit pissed.
She’s smoked cigarettes & hated it! I’m not entirely sure if she’s had a proper joint.
If she had I really wouldn’t be worked up by it
She’s getting serious good grades & if she has had a bit of a blaze whilst still keeping up her grades then so be it.
I smoked a whole lot of weed whilst training to become a nurse;
So did all the people around me who were training to become doctors & nurses.
Seriously? Two teenage boys spending Christmas eve baking cookies, drinking cocoa and watching Christmas movies??? Not a chance!
Total troll. Note he/she hasn’t responded to any of the accusations of being a troll. He/she is enjoying him/herself immensely…
Guess what? The vast, VAST majority of weed/booze/drug users are perfectly functional adjusted people. You only ever hear about the unfortunate cases.
There are many of those people right here, on this board, talking to you right now about it. We are fighting your ignorance but you seem to be embracing it.
If you asked all of the meth-heads who tried weed before meth if their mothers had prior to that provided them with a cold glass of milk, roughly 100% of them would agree that that was the order. Have you ever given your kids a cold glass of milk? Monster!
Is your therapist a LMHC, a psychologist, or something else?
I’m not a troll. For those who have accused me of being one.
And yes, they did spend Xmas that way because that has been our tradition since they were toddlers.
We are seeing a social worker.
Given the age of her children and what I remember from my growing up, I’m betting about 30 years later. She probably came of age during the Reagan just say no campaign, was assigned to read “Go Ask Alice”, . Kids at that time had it drilled into them that if you even took one toke it would turn them into an addict and would destroy their lives forever. She, like me, may even have been lucky enough to have celebrity speaker David Toma come and visit her school and talk at an assembly about how he knew a kid who tried pot just once and dropped dead on the spot.
Here’s the thing Declanium, they lied to you. Their hearts were in the right place, many people do have problems with drugs and kids are probably better off staying away from them. But the scared straight tactics of the “Just say no” campaign were far more interested in terrifying children than they were in dispensing accurate information.