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

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What I *don’t* do is use weed or drink alcohol while my kids are near a body of water.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop normalizing weed.

+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.

This. Small town in Michigan has more weed stores than restaurants or churches now...

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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”

This. Always get that kind of life jacket.

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Blood draws. Dealing with days off from school. Seeing kid missing out on childhood joys. One of our kids has a chronic disease. I feel we spend our time in the lab.

Happy now, OP?

I'm right there with you, PP. Hug to you.

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At least OP is smoking weed outside while kids play in the woods. Better than smoking indoors while your kids breathe it in and play Fortnite for hours

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Anonymous wrote:Well this is DCUM where the majority live in the DC area. So way to post something the rest of us cannot do on the regular. Sure we have the random lake areas that are within an hour and they get filled up immediately and stay packed all day. And that’s only when it’s actually the season for it.

This is the equivalent to posting “I don’t under stand why I don’t see more families ice fishing on the weekends, We live in Alaska and do this constantly! Parenting hack!”

Dc has a river and many kayak, fish, efc

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Anonymous wrote:Well this is DCUM where the majority live in the DC area. So way to post something the rest of us cannot do on the regular. Sure we have the random lake areas that are within an hour and they get filled up immediately and stay packed all day. And that’s only when it’s actually the season for it.

This is the equivalent to posting “I don’t under stand why I don’t see more families ice fishing on the weekends, We live in Alaska and do this constantly! Parenting hack!”

Sandy point is 30 minutes out

From where? Because from where I live in MD it’s an hour and a half. You do realize that that this area is composed of places other than where you personally live correct?

Also do you go there any other time than when it’s warm? It’s simply not enjoyable when it’s cold/not good weather.

From DC. Of course if you live in Hagerstown or Aberdeen or wherever all these people who aren’t from the DC area live it’ll be an hour and a half away.

The DC area actually includes a pretty large area-not just “DC”,But ok. And in no way is Sandy Point 30 minutes away from DC either. Maybe if you go at 2am and even that’s a stretch.

We have tons of rivers and lakes

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Depending on age…

We go creeking
We visited the zoo once a week for 2 years
Fishing (with one child the other hated it)
Every Sunday we went to the pool that has a slide and mini water park from 5-7, shower, PJ’s and asleep by the time the 5min ride home ended. The other parent was ready with a nice dinner and a glass of wine
Thursday night movie night

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Blood draws. Dealing with days off from school. Seeing kid missing out on childhood joys. One of our kids has a chronic disease. I feel we spend our time in the lab.

Happy now, OP?

I'm right there with you, PP. Hug to you.

More hugs here. My close friend changes feeding tubes and is a de facto nurse and social worker for her child. She doesn't get to go herself away for more than 24 hours to the coast to hang out and take recreational drugs. Her child has never been out of the state.

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Anonymous wrote:Well this is DCUM where the majority live in the DC area. So way to post something the rest of us cannot do on the regular. Sure we have the random lake areas that are within an hour and they get filled up immediately and stay packed all day. And that’s only when it’s actually the season for it.

This is the equivalent to posting “I don’t under stand why I don’t see more families ice fishing on the weekends, We live in Alaska and do this constantly! Parenting hack!”

Sandy point is 30 minutes out

Stupid