Do you tell ur kids u love mary jane??

My kids are gettin to the age...ya know where they may know what that smell is. So my question to you oh so bright and insightful ones is... Do you tell your kids that you enjoy a conversation with mary jane. The D.A.R.E. program has em thinkin that pot is BADDDD! So what do you do? and What do you say...I happen to think that there are for worse things you could do than smoke weed so at the age of 9 or maybe even younger...are you open with your kids about smokin or do you keep it hush hush and hope they don't ask (or worse catch you in the act)...tell me what you think.

Take care!

 

Well I kinda see myself becoming one really liberal parent... I don't think I would be all hush about it at any rate, or try to scare 'em with misinformation. Whether to let 'em use it, I guess I would judge by the individual, you know, how much self-control they have. One thing that kinda would worry me a bit about those DARE programs is if they encourage kids to taddle on their pot-smoking moms and dads.

 

i know i'm only 15 but i'll be smoking till im 50 and personaly i don't think pot is bad at all, not at all. But this is just my opinoin. umm and i plan to have kids and still smoke pot. so how old are they?

 

i probably wouldnt tell them about it unless they asked... and if they hadnt asked by 15/16 i would probably talk to them about drugs.

 

They are still pretty6 young but incredibly intellegent ages 9,5,3,and 9 months , obviously I am referring to the older ones!

 

nah, i would not confront them about it yet, you've got a handfull though dontcha

 

I don't have any kids of my own but alot of the people I smoke with have kids or had kids that age and I've seen some that are open about it (most actually) and some that are hush hush. In the end the kids always find out so I think it's better to just be truthful about it and educate your kids as best you can. Anymore 9 isn't too young to start talkin to em about drugs anyways, pro or anti, I imagine your 9 year old's heard a thing or two already. A good way to start out might be just ask what, if anything, they've heard about marijuana and then take it from there, maybe do some comparisons between cigs, alcohol and weed, show them that weed is actually better for ya than either of the others, since they're legal. Really it all comes down to whether or not you think your kids (I'd suggest maybe just the 9 year old for now, 5's a little too young imo) can grasp the concept of something being illegal but not necessarily bad or bad for ya.

Personally I'd never hide it from my kids, I'd want them to be very well educated on the subject and know the facts, not the bullshit schools try to feed em, better they know the truth first than to have to re-teach them. It would be up to my kids of course but I'd let them smoke pot if they wanted to when they turned 13, provided they take and pass some kind of test about marijuana, maybe just facts and what to do if confronted by a cop or any authority figure for that matter, then I would know that they know what they're getting into and that they can keep themselves out of trouble, less I gotta worry about

 

My daughter is only 4, so she's too small to know what's what concerning my love of the herb. I NEVER skin up in front of her, i keep my stash in the freezer, and i don't smoke it around her at all. Im not into doing drugs around children or inflicting my smoke on them. I just wouldn't enjoy a good old burn if i did. I remember seeing a tiny child with a piece of paper "rolling one up". I thought it was tragic, bless him.
However, once my daughter is 16 if she wants to smoke and i can't talk her out of it, i would probably let her because, if she turns out to be anything like me, she will do it anyway and i'd rather be able to keep an eye on her! I reckon by that time it will totally be legal. As it is the coppers turn a blind eye to it now.

 

I'm not a parent who smokes pot, but both of my parents burn. They have always been open with me about it. I think the first time I was REALLY sure that my dad was smoking weed and that it was illegal was in 3rd grade. But, they had told me before I just didn't really get it.
My parents burn around me all the time, it's nothing to be ashamed of. They still don't let me smoke yet (gotta wait till the ole 18) even though I already do.

My advice would be to tell the older ones that you smoke pot, and maybe why you smoke it. The pros and cons of weed probably won't interest them that much at that age. But be sure to remind them that it is illegal and not to talk to any of their friends at school about it. Ya don't want something to slip and end of getting busted cuz your kid blabbed. And, that if your kids ever tell anyone that daddy smokes reffer, "they" will come and take you away from your family (keep that over their head and the won't say a word).

 

I'm not suggesting smoking around her...I wouldn't want to inflict that around her until she was old enough to make that choice. And your right 4 is too young for them to even conceive what pot is let alone illegal drugs.

See....my mom smoked when I was a kid, but she tried to keep it hush hush from me. I actually resented her for it because she was also trying to teach me to be honest and open with her. I always thought how can I be honest and open with you when you are hiding something like that from me...some of it was amusing though. She told me her little glass bong was just a pretty vase.haha
Anyway...I actually threw my mom's stash away and all her paraphanalia too. I grew up thinking it must really be a horrible thing if my mom keeps it from me and actually lies about it. I didn't learn until I was much older that the herb was not at all as bad as I had once thought...so I just don't want my kids to get the same ideas, and I want to be honest with them.

 

My friends mom used to smoke ganja (until a mishap with rehab lol) and she kept it from her and her sister. Of course my friend had tried it, along with her sister and did it occasionally.....at this time my friend was 14 and her sister was 17.....One night her mom was driving home with her and she asked if she had ever smoked before....and my friend had a little bit of an idea that her mom might smoke, but not really. And she said yes she had tried it and then her mom came clean with her....at first it was really weird, my friend didn't know what to think, and her sister freaked out. But after a while and some getting used to it they always smoked together, Even close (only close tho) friends of hers got to smoke with their mom and stuff....it was great, I loved smoking with her. But yeah anyways....thats how my friends mom came out of the closet lol, you just have to make sure your child wont tell, and that they know how to keep a secret...maybe test them with something else?....​

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Ya I smoke with my mom now...it's great. I am actually her dealer

 

My parents smoked all the time when I was growing up.. They never actually told me they smoked pot till i finally figured it out.. I think I was in 7th grade when I finally realized it.. I knew they always went out in the garage literally on the hour.. But i never thought much about it.. I went to a really nice elementary school, and then attended private school.. So i guess I was kinda sheltered.. When I first saw them puffing away, they pulled over on the side of the road in New Orleans.. Then said they needed to get something out of the trunk and to stay in the car.. They popped the trunk, and start puffing away on a doobie.. I noticed through the back window.. Showed my little brother.. Kept my mouth shut.. Started smoking in 9th grade and pinched away =D

 

Well I don't have any kids, but when I do, I'm sure they're going to want to try marijuana, and as a parent I'm pobably going to want them to hold off on trying it for as long as possible.

 

i have no kids and dont know if i ever will or not, no idea, its not looking like im going to be having any such thing with stilllll being single and a bachelor and all that crazy stuff lol

i have no idea how or when i would tell any kids that i might ever have, if i was smoking green, dont know,

if that time ever does come then i will research and find out the best thing to do/say when need be.



good luck!

 

most people I know r open with ther kids - y not - as to DARE put them fucking straight - YOUR kids r being lied 2 over & over

 

i am a mom of a 6 year old girl and i have never hidden my habit from her. We have different ways of talking about it but i am not going to hide me from her. i don't smoke around her but she has seen my pipes and other smoking utensils. Some might think it is not right but I disagree I don't tell my daughter lies and hiding it would be like a lie to me. i don't want the next generation growing up thinking it is a dirty secret. Not that i want her to be a toker that is her choice, I just want her to know the people that are and not believe all the hype her school throws at her.She is still pretty young and really only thinks it is tabacco my husband smokes ciggies and she just thinks it is my ciggy but I never call it that.I don't worry about her saying anything in school about my stuff but even if she did I would just have to face the consequenes of my chosen lifestyle.

 

Hello I know you didn't mean to smoke around the children, sorry if you thought that. And i agree with you whole heatedly about being totally honest with ones children. My best friends dad was a dealer and she grew up with weed all around her, and she doesn't touch it! lolol. My mum never smoked a thing, but my sister and i do. So, the fact i smoke weed, im hoping my daughter keeps the tradition of doing the opposite to the parent....and doesn't touch dope! lolol. Mind you, if she was going to do any drug, i'd rather it be pot. I'd also rather she smoke pot (Without tobacco), than be a heavy drinker. Kids eh?!

 

D.A.R.E. confronts kids when they're YOUNG because it's easyer to lie and make it convincing. At 9 I thought weed would turn my lungs black, get me killed or at the very least turn me into smokey from the P.j.'s and of course I was afraid of over dosing when I first tryed it ... yea.. fuck dare.

 

I think if you're going to tell your son/daughter that your smoke, don't just approach them and be like, hey little johnny, me and mommy smoke the ganja.i'd be kinda weirded out if my parents came up and said that to me.i kinda wish they did they, my mom is pretty anal about buds, my did is cool about it cuz he went through the whole pot smokin phase back when it was hip to be high.listens to all the stoner music like pink floyd, janice joplin, jefferson airplaine.anyways, back to the bud.if you see you're kid is starting to notice then he should know what's goin on, or if you see HIM gettin blazed.don't bring it up till you feel he needs to know.you need to know what to tell them too.don't make it seem like he can smoke weed 24/7 and not do anything else.just tell him/her to be cool about it and not be a stupid stoner.that's what my dad said to me."i don't have a problem with you smoking as long as you're cool about it and don't go overboard".set bounderies ;P