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Should I tell my kids about all the drugs I used to do?
I've been honest with them about everything, but I'm not sure about this.
By Cary Tennis [2007-09-21]

  • What's with this honesty trend in parenting?

    If you tell your kids not to do drugs while at the same time telling them you did drugs, chances are better than 50/50 that they'll do drugs. Any smokers out there who tried and failed to keep their kids from smoking?

    Treating your children as if they are fully formed adults when they are not is *not* good parenting. It's feel-good hippy nonsense. If your aim is to keep your kids off drugs (and that should be your aim), and if you think lying will help you achieve that aim, then LIE. Lying's not always a bad thing.

    Think of Santa Claus, or the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth fairy.

    If you tell your kids you did drugs but they should not, which half of the lesson do you imagine will stick?

    -- aeschylus
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    Friday, September 21, 2007 02:04 PM
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