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[quote=Anonymous]I think sometimes my teen tells me things other kids are doing to test the waters. I try to make it clear that I'm critical of the *act* and not the child. I think using weed as a teenager is a mistake. But I don't look down on teens who do it, and I understand there are all sorts of reasons why teens do. My gut reaction for some things was to be incredulous, and I realized that didn't help. If my teen was trying to see how I'd react if he did something dumb, I wanted him to know I was concerned for him and his friends and wanting to help them, not critical of them and just wanting to make them feel dumb.[/quote]
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