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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Used often in the bathroom at DC's Big 3.  So depressing...[/quote]

What is the purpose of it? I don’t get it. [/quote]

I understand no one wants to be a tattletale but why don’t kids tell if they know these kids are doing it?[/quote]

A sound sense of personal privacy.[/quote]

I don’t understand what this means. One would argue if you’re inhaling illegal substances in public view (it is illegal if you’re under 18 and especially if you’re inhaling other illegal substances like weed) then you have given up any rights you have to privacy. If you want privacy do it in your own home.[/quote]

Op I was so wrong and naïve about all of this. I truly did not think kids in 7th and 8th grade were doing this. Friends just told me their daughter was recently at a 7th grade party and both boys and girls were openly vaping. I thought we had a few years before we had to worry about this. Who knows what they’re putting in it. [/quote]

One down and half the people on this message board to go. [/quote]

What do you mean? [/quote]

NP but I know exactly - poster means one parent who has finally woken up to the fact that vaping (and other activities) most certainly do go on amongst the middle school crowd and vaping is rampant in highschool - all high schools.  I have kids at some of the most widely discussed and popular schools on this board and they see it amongst their peers at school (on campus and off during school hours and after school) and at parties and social events, all the time.

And to the PP further up,. You arent blessed you are[b] lucky[/b], for now.  Being lucky today doesn't ensure your kid will always be nerdy and stay away from this stuff.  Many (most?) nerdy middle schoolers start dabbling and partaking by sophomore or junior year of HS.  I'm lucky that neither of my kids seems attracted to it but its that - luck.  I constantly have conversations, take their "social desire temperature," pay attention to what they and their friends are doing and posting on social media, etc...  and yet I still know that kids at this age are very adept at hiding things from their parents - no matter how vigilant I am and how close I think we are. Teenagers will experiment with behaviors and substances that their parents dont approve.[/quote]

They are not all doing it. My child is not and none of their friends are doing it. In fact she said her friends were very uncomfortable at a party recently where 7th grade boys/girls were openly vaping. It was the first time her friends had seen anyone doing it. Most of the grade still is not vaping. It is the group of faster kids that all have boyfriends/girlfriends apparently. By no means is it most of the kids. Give some of these kids some credit and don’t assume that everyone is doing these things. Some kids are still pretty naïve and young at heart and don’t want to be around anything like this.[/quote]

hahahaha. Love this. "It is the group of faster kids that all have boyfriends/girlfriends apparently."  [/quote]

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