Keeping connected while talking about suspicions

[Anonymous]

I've had recent reasons to be suspicious about some teen misbehaving. Some I keep to myself, some I need to address (e.g. Possible weed use). I'd love to hear ways, timing, etc. you talk to your teen to keep connected, not push further underground, etc. I just feel a bit at a loss. No snarky comments. I am doing the hard parenting things, I just want to do it better!!!

[Anonymous]

I struggle with this all the time. I hope someone here has a great answer.

[Anonymous]

I struggle too. But it’s the right goal. I’ve taken the position of not punishing for information shared and really informing of risks legal, health, etc, including self medicating. I also talk very openly about addiction/dependence, what it looks like, feels like, warnings signs (want to stop or scale back and can’t). I also don’t allow anything in my house s d if so find it I’m throwing it out.

[Anonymous]

I talk to my daughter about weed, and brain chemistry and how the brain is growing. I've told her that no matter where she is, I will always bring her home safely. We talk about people who use drugs and make bad decisions while under the influence.

But I've also talked to her about how to get pure weed and get it safely.

[Anonymous]

They do it any way. They do what they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I talk to my daughter about weed, and brain chemistry and how the brain is growing. I've told her that no matter where she is, I will always bring her home safely. We talk about people who use drugs and make bad decisions while under the influence.

But I've also talked to her about how to get pure weed and get it safely.

what do you mean by the lady part?

[Anonymous]

Last part!

[Anonymous]

Weed is so pervasive now and the kids view it very differently than when I was in high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I talk to my daughter about weed, and brain chemistry and how the brain is growing. I've told her that no matter where she is, I will always bring her home safely. We talk about people who use drugs and make bad decisions while under the influence.

But I've also talked to her about how to get pure weed and get it safely.

what do you mean by the lady part?

I mean I've talked to her about how sometimes someone can have one drug that is laced with another drug that you weren't aware of, and how to avoid winding up with that.