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[quote=Anonymous]I have a stricter no drug or drinking approach than a lot of parents in our wealthy-ish community. It's the type of place parents will serve alcohol at parties and there.are.so.many.drugs. It's very white and full of "good kids" who go onto "good colleges" and continue the cycle of wealth building that their families established generations before them.

But my kids are black. And we are the first generation out of poverty and in the upper middle class. First college grads, etc. So, this place seems like Mars to me sometimes. When my oldest son started with the whole "everyone's doing it" thing and I shut it down.

I make a point to frame the discussion around the fact that they can't get away with things that their peers might. It's been instructive with these police shootings because I've drilled it into their heads that drinking and driving or taking drugs is quite literally a life and death thing if they get caught by the police. I've taken this approach over the past three years or so. My oldest is in college and my second is a senior and both keep things fairly straight and narrow. If anything, I think it got them more interested in social justice, the screwed up criminal system and how people find themselves in a pipeline from school to prison. With everything going on in the world, I think it was an effective way to splash cold water on their faces.

OP, I would focus your discussion on the real life impact of drugs. Do you have addiction in your family? Because that might be a good way to begin the discussion of why it's not a good idea to fool around with this stuff.[/quote]

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