Wow venture capitalists are after your dick now?
Dunno how many parents are here in a nonserious community, but I’m curious what y’all are doing. Probably more of a progressive crowd here even if conservative because Lemmy.
We told our kids everything when they asked, and some more when they didn’t, about all drugs including alcohol and even energy drinks. We didn’t demonize the drugs, if anything we told them pot would be a better choice than alcohol, but we told them about the negatives and even some of the positives some might have - but the dangers of drugs like heroin we hit pretty hard. Yeah, they can be fun. Some have a really steep price, though. Probably started talking about this seriously when they were 8, but they knew about it all earlier.
They already told us about kids bringing vapes to school in 5th grade. Mostly just kids being stupid trying to be cool. 6-8th shit gets more serious. Odd knife threat, real vaping, kids being sent to the hospital after pounding 5 energy drinks with 200mg caffeine in each one. And we’re in a “good” school district. Funny, in my day it was kids trying to smoke in the bathroom or loading a soda cup with vodka they got from wherever. Now it’s vapes, energy drinks, and I’m waiting for the alcohol stories. Most of the kids doing this stuff early have some f’d up parents from what my kids tell us.
I have pretty honest conversations with my kid. He is pretty bright and I can explain things to him.
A while back we had a conversation about weed. I told him it's just a plant that grows, gets harvested, processed and smoked. Since, he's still single digits in age, I told him it's an herb. I didn't really want him screaming "weed!" If he smelled it outside.
I'm nervous about him growing up today. It's a scary world out there, alls' I can do is try and teach him about it.
When I was growing up, even in a very Christian conservative household, my mother was very open to me about drugs and what they meant. She related her own experiences as well as that of people she knew clearly, honestly, and without scaremongering. From that, I had a passing interest in LSD that I never acted on, but everything else sounded rather... not worth the trouble.
In middle school, back in the mid-2000s, we had water bottles banned because of kids bringing in vodka in them. By high school, we had regular bomb threats. Good times!
Yeah, sounds similar to our approach sans religion. Kids got some messed up stuff to deal with. I grew up with the threat of nuclear annihilation. Terrifying, but impersonal. Now kids have to deal with the possibility of being shot, or hear it happening to a friend or classmate. Someone might pipe up and give a bullshit reason about statistics and how unlikely it is. I can tell you I never had a nuke fall on my school, but there’s kids shot plenty enough.
My father caught my smoking weed at the back of the house at 16 after I had finished a shift at 0300 glass collecting in a local nightclub. He looked pissed and said we'll talk in the morning. The next morning he sat me down and said he smoked weed until I was three years old.
His advice was.
"smoking weed is fun and can help you relax but you must always remember that there's more to life and weed may stop you from seeing that, stop you from doing the important things in life, so don't let it become your entire personality."Seems like a good dad. I'm a line cook so I used to smoke a lot. I've cut WAY back and am definitely enjoying shit more now. Nothing against people who smoke a lot, it was just a bit too much for me.
It's pretty pervasive in the restaurant industry. I had a chef who asked me to help him move his Hobart mixer back to his house. Damn thing weighed around 200 lbs, and hauling it into the bed of my truck was a pain in the ass. When we get it back to his house, he proceeds to light up a bong, offer me a hit (I declined, never smoke and drive) and then he decided to pay me in a ton of weed he had grown.
Yeah, you can't trust those Venture Capitalists
I've started calling them Vulture Capitalists
How to get kids to stop smoking weed: Give them weed and show them a horror movie.
i got baked out of my mind and watched that halloween episode of wandavision.....fucked me up for weeks
lol, that's definitely not going to stop them.
"I love getting baked on scary movie night!"
"Drugs are bad because I tried all of them and they were bad" my father said. I don't doubt he tried some, but he was also a teller of tales.
Mother said not to do them because they are deceptively kind. She's come around on weed being less worse than alcohol.
My mother told me not to do any illegal drugs because if she ever had to bail my ass out of jail, she'd've been pissed.
I'd like to say it worked, but honestly, I've just never had the interest.
"Drugs are bad, m'kay?"
Sorry, I'm binging South Park right now and the way you started your comment made me read the whole thing in Mr. Mackey's voice.
My preschool drug talk was 'Here, puff on this'..
Not even joking. The very first word I remember is joint.
Not far from that here too, I could roll perfect joints before I was 10, never smoked anything myself until I was 20 though, and have since stopped.
average venture capitalist
Fell asleep smoking Vietnam era weed. Doubt. Weed laced with opium perhaps.
I don’t honestly remember getting a drug talk (besides the DARE) program.
I do remember being taken to 3 separate third party sex talk plus a bunch of it in church at many different ages.
Man what a brainwashing our folks did to us.
