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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of people think that drinking and screwing around in their teens was a highlight of their lives, so they don’t care if their kids are doing it.

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It’s moreso that kids go to college at 17/18, they’re suddenly out from under their mom’s thumb & go wild.[/quote]

The kids who are wild in high school are wild in college also [/quote]

+1 and the kids who aren’t wild in high school don’t become wild in college. At least that was my experience. [/quote]

Yup 100%

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I disagree completely.

I went to a conservative Baptist high school but had more moderate parents.  Many of my classmates came from super strict households.  Fast forward to college and most of them went nuts freshman year: alcohol, sex, drugs, etc.  It was like they were crossing every vice off their list as fast as they could. I actually didn't do any of those things in high school either but it wasn't because my parents were telling me at every turn that I couldn't do them. There is something to be said for letting teens make their own decisions. [/quote]

What I observed from my high school sample set: kids with really permissive parents drank or did drugs because they could. Kids with very strict parents acted out by sneaking out of the house to drink/do drugs/etc. Kids with parents who were more middle lane—not too strict, not too permissive—were pretty moderate in their behavior.

Not all kids of course, but generally. [/quote]

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