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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I too am amazed by some of the keep them busy suggestions.   #1 factor is are the friends doing it?   And yes the friends can have all A's and take APs and tons of extra curriculars and still do drugs.  
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Of course they can, and any parent who believes they can totally control their children's lives is delusional.   That said, idle hands are the devil's playthings, and often it is boredom that leads to some of the behavior.[/quote]

The problem with this line of thinking is that we've raised a generation of children who don't know how to entertain themselves.  We've scheduled them up so much that they don't know what to do when they have down time.  They can't keep being overscheduled forever -- at some point they will have empty time on their hands.  And they won't know how to handle it.  Boredom is a fact of life.  All people at some point in their lives experience boredom and it is certainly not the parents' job to keep their children run run running around so they are never ever bored.  The inability to know what to do with time makes kids much more vulnerable to drug abuse cause they have to do something to wave the boredom away.[/quote]

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