What's something you do as a parent that nobody else seems to do as much?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing you do this regularly because, if you did, you’d know rivers aren’t safe at all. I grew up ON a river and even I wasn’t allowed to just “hang out in the river” until I was in my teens…and at that age I didn’t want my mom sitting in the mud watching me while smoking weed. SO freaking weird.

My children wear life jackets but ok lol

Lifejackets will drown a child who is unconscious and face down in the water... Hence why responsible adults watch kids in the water, even if they have water safety devices.

Actually you can buy specific life jackets that have a float behind the head that will always orient the head upwards in case they lose consciousness. Look up “Type 2 PFD”

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Thissss

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Anonymous wrote:Stop normalizing weed.

It’s as normal as a beer at the football game. That ship has sailed.

Tell that to my son who developed psychosis from weed when he was a teen. Thankfully he is fine now but it shouldn’t be as normal as a beer.

Agreed, agreed, AGREED! And it's WAY stronger than it was in the 70s and 80s and 90s, as it's now legalized so they are growing it "better" which means stronger. So it hits harder and bigger than it used to when current adults smoked pot in their teen years.

I HATE that it is legalized.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not drink or use drugs around my kids because if there is an emergency I don't want to be impaired.

But we're in Potomac and always go on the Potomac to kayak. And we're pretty much screen free as the default

This. What is your plan if someone in your family has an emergency? This is incredibly stupid and you shouldn’t be giving parenting advice.

You couldn’t drive after one white claw? I’m not OP but this doesn’t seem crazy at all.

it’s the weed.

OP here. I've smoked the past 15 years. A few hits off my pen does not at all get me high the way you are thinking.

Yes, you are habituated and so you need more and more weed to get high. If one puff does not do it for you (according to you), why would you take just one puff? Shame on you.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting high as a single parent while supervising kids playing in a river. What could go wrong?!

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Anonymous wrote:For me as a co-parenting single mom (however you want to word it?) most of our days off are spent at the river, lake, or ocean. I do see other families there, but we may go to a spot 3x a week and never see the same people. I have year round parking passes for nearby beaches/recreational areas so that gets us there more often.

I feel like it's such a parenting hack. Pack up a lunch, bring some chairs, sometimes bring our 5 person raft or paddle board, some tubes (we live in CA, though I did this as a kid in MN where lake life is big). Our spring break has been spent at a river 8 minutes from our home. I usually take a few puffs from my weed pen or drink a white claw when we get there to make it a little more fun (then by the time we leave several hours later it's worn off so no I'm not driving intoxicated).

I do have friends who like to go paddleboarding when my kids are away on the weekends, but none of my kids friends do this.

I don't understand what you mean by "days off" -- you all have three "days off" a week? Like, what? And how old are your kids... when mine were little we did lots of things throughout the week that are the DC-area weather equivalent to this, ha. But now they are in ES and busy with ECs, homework, and my kids are very social and love to play with neighborhood and other friends. We're not over-scheduled, just a good busy. We love weekend outings, though.

OP here. I am a teacher, so I don't work spring break/summer, those are the days off. Only sport we do in the summer is swimming lessons. My kids do play with the neighbors.

And to others replying ...I love how I have been judged as irresponsible on here, yet I am the favorite teacher at school and all the parents appreciate/trust me. I bet a lot of the parents would be surprised to know most of us teachers smoke to deal with the stress? Never had an incident with my children or as a teacher, and my oldest is a preteen, they are always safe with me. I have anxiety so I am on top of safety stuff ha!

And I obviously don't smoke before/at school lol. Definitely not white trash to the other PP, grew up UMC and well educated here.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not drink or use drugs around my kids because if there is an emergency I don't want to be impaired.

But we're in Potomac and always go on the Potomac to kayak. And we're pretty much screen free as the default

This. What is your plan if someone in your family has an emergency? This is incredibly stupid and you shouldn’t be giving parenting advice.

You couldn’t drive after one white claw? I’m not OP but this doesn’t seem crazy at all.

This really depends on the person I think. I wouldn't drive after a white claw. But I am a small person and a lightweight. I think most people probably could.

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We play video games together and have a great time.

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Anonymous wrote:I put away my phone when I am with my kids.

That is unusual.

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Send elementary kid places alone, but with me nearby. Like send into small local grocery store with a list, or send him into Starbucks to buy a drink for me and a snack for himself.

No tablets at home, on planes, or anywhere else. We don't have one. I wish screens were not so ubiquitous. Getting gas, having dinner out, running errands, getting a haircut... seems like there is always at least one screen blaring.

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Actually let our kids go free range. It drives their school nuts, but we don't care. Children need adversity to develop resiliency, and the best way to do that is to give them a chance to make mistakes.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop normalizing weed.

It’s as normal as a beer at the football game. That ship has sailed.

Tell that to my son who developed psychosis from weed when he was a teen. Thankfully he is fine now but it shouldn’t be as normal as a beer.

Agreed, agreed, AGREED! And it's WAY stronger than it was in the 70s and 80s and 90s, as it's now legalized so they are growing it "better" which means stronger. So it hits harder and bigger than it used to when current adults smoked pot in their teen years.

I HATE that it is legalized.

You are very misinformed because the reason why cannabis was selectively bred to be more potent is because of the laws that punished possession by weight. If you get increased penalties based on weight then your main goal when growing would be to elicit the same psychoactive effect with less plant material. This is why cannabis culture celebrates potency.

BTW potency is greatly misunderstood by non users like you. Just because cannabis is more potent that doesn’t mean that users are taking more. There is a tolerance that develops from frequent use and daily users don’t really even get high much at all no matter the dose. Just like alcohol, people drink more beer by column than liquor because they are seeking a certain effect.

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+1

We are a 2-fed household.

Possession of marijuana is still a federal offense everywhere in the USA and D.C.

If you think you cannot get fired from your federal employment, you have not been paying attention.

Taking marijuana (in any form) or even possessing it for someone else will cost you your federal career, your security clearance, etc. Don’t do it.

Op lives in CA she said. I will say the attitude around weed in CA is just wild. Like it’s so completely normalized it’s actually scary. Also I’m so confused why someone in CA is posting in a DC area forum about local things they do. I’m
sure there are CA based forums.

I’ve lived in multiple states, and it’s not just in CA that weed has been normalized. Because of federal employment, weed is still not okay in the DMV area, but I’d say this is more the exception than the rule in metropolitan areas where weed has been legalized to some extent. I’ve never smoked marijuana or done any drug (besides drink alcohol), so I’m not in any way defending the normalization of weed.

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I keep various snacks in my house and let my daughter typically choose whatever she wants. She is able to control herself around food. Her friends that are restricted with food go crazy when they come over and want to eat everything.