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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Early puberty, risk-taking personality, and lack of supervision.

I don’t get the people here saying parenting doesn’t play a role. I have a 14-year-old who doesn’t even go to parties. He plays online games with friends, goes to sports, and walks the dog. Where in there would he be smoking pot and having sex?

In contrast, I had a boyfriend once who said he first had sex at 13, with an older girl. I can’t even imagine when or how. When mine was 13 he still played with legos.[/quote]

If it was me, he would be climbing out the window. Really some kids are so awful they just can’t be controlled with good parenting. That said I think that parents who are emotionally absent/don’t at least try to enforce form boundaries are far more likely to have kids like this. [/quote]

Exactly. My 14 yo kid thinks he is 21 in terms of how he wants to interact with the world. He leaves the house seeking adventure, gets himself paid jobs, finds girls to date, and meets up with his fellow "interesting" friends. Obviously when things go south he gets grounded or faces other punishments, but I can't be on top of his every waking minute. It's a hard balance between locking him down and keeping the lines of communication open. It's his personality; he's always been too big for his britches. In another era, he'd have been an apprentice to a brickmaker or a skpper on a ship or faking his age to get into the army. [/quote]

What kinds of jobs?[/quote]

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