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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid is probably smoking weed and the friend is supplying it.

My son started hanging out with a kid like that last year. You cannot control the other kid but you can "control" yours.

We could not control the school but we did at home. Mine was grounded for a month. No phone, no social media, no outings. We searched his phone daily as well. He hated it, of course, but that was part of the consequences for hanging out with the wrong crowd. After a few weeks he got his privileges back but days after he was hanging out with the friend again. So he was grounded again.

I'm not going to lie, it took like 4 strict groundings for him to finally start stepping away from the friendship. That was half of the school year. We put the App. Life 360 on his phone and tracked his every move for a while until he gained our trust back.

He was forbidden to go to the kid's home, I learned his parents were divorce and no one was ever home. The last straw was when I noticed my son was at the friends' house, so I decided to drive there and knock on the door. My son came out smelling like weed. I told him and the kid that he was lucky I wasn't calling the police to the home. I threaten them I would if ever a next time. They were 16yr. old's at the time and that seem to work. At least for my kid who is no longer friends with the "bad" kid. 
The kid got in more trouble at school after that and got in trouble during the summer.

My son continued playing sports and also got a job. We just kept him busy.

By the way, this is all Suburban VA. The kids are 6ft. tall and I'm a 5'4" mom, who loves and protects her boy!. [/quote]

Did you ground him if they were hanging out at school too?

My kid lost all privileges after the school incident and has slowly earned some back. 
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