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[quote=Anonymous]My 17 year was caught was caught with marijuana.  This is the 2nd time, first time was more than a year ago.

My kid does not have a car/drive, does have a cell phone which has already been taken away.  It's the start of summer, and although we said make sure you have secured a summer job that did not happen.  My kid will be a senior next year.

When this happened what approach did you take in dealing with it and what were the consequences?   I feel intermittently angry but mostly very very disappointed. The first time this happened we talked a lot about this -  not in a I forbid this/marijuana is a horrible horrible thing that you must never ever do - . But more of a this is illegal, you can be arrested, this will have an affect on your developing brain,  think about your future - you could mess up your high school career and college outlook, etc.  Knowing that we have had many conversations when this happened AND since then, just to keep the line of communications open and to relay the importance of this, part of me wants to say that if these are the kind of reckless decisions you are going to choose to make then when you  turn 18 next year you can GTF outta my house and make whatever decisions you want to make on your own.    I want to say, forget about the graduation cookout we were just talking about throwing you next year, because these dumb decisions show me you care nothing about graduating high school and going to college.  I know these thoughts are coming from the anger that I feel though.

I want to approach this in a very rational way, I don't want to be emotionally all over the place and I don't want to make empty threats that I wont or can't follow through on.

Looking for advice.[/quote]

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