Originally Posted by 3kids4me

I think that any parent that believes that all children will use drugs and any parent that believes their children will never use drugs is wrong.

That said, I hope that I would never have to use a service of a drug sniffing dog to find out if there are drugs in my home.

We've had discussions with our oldest about alcohol and drugs. All of us coming from a history of alcoholism has made these discussions imperative - the kids need to know they are at risk so since we have to go there, it's easy to bring up drugs at the same time.

I take a middle of the road position on this. I have a good relationship with the 13 year old and he's pretty open with me. It's my hope that if he's tempted by or offered drugs he will feel comfortable talking to me about it and that will only happen if he's confident that I'm not going to freak out about it.

Lisa