pot and parents.... (serious discussion)

lazlow, from the buzz in KC, had a discussion about parents smoking pot with their kids. he doesnt think its right for a mom or dad to smoke pot with their sons or daughters. he said that kind of degenerate behaviour spurns degenerate behaviour later in life. if a kid doesnt feel threatened by their parents, by smoking pot, they wouldnt feel threatened by their parents with other things in life, like stealing cars, getting pregnant or someone else pregnant. he believes that parents should act like parents. they should inforce the rules, not break the rules with their kids. they should be more of a role model and enforcer than a friend.

alot of people called in saying that they didnt do anything wrong or strange later in life because they smoked pot with their parents. one guy called up and said he is a construction worker and has a family, and he smoked pot with his mom when he was 15. lazlow asked how old the guy was, and he said he was 21. then he asked how old his kids were...... the guy said his kids are 3 and 2. Lazlow said now this is the type of abnormal behaviour Im talking about. you got a girl pregnant before the age of 18, and you had two kids before the age of 20. that isnt normal, is it?? the guy said, well kids have sex. but lazlow said, you had unprotected sex! and you knocked a girl up and decided to marry her because she was pregnant with your baby.

what do you people think??? would you or have you smoked pot with your parents??? I dont think parents should smoke pot with their kids, nor should they drink with them, well if they are younger than 21.

any thoughts???

 

I smoked pot with my parents. and I turned out just fine.

 

hahaha!

 

I couldnt imagine ever smoking pot with my parents. thats just wrong....... I mean, wouldnt that kill your high if you saw your parents blown out of their fuckin mind??

they to me are authority figures and I respect them. I would have lost all respect if they smoked pot with me at a young age. even now, I couldnt see myself smoking pot with my parents. wtf!

 

well you can go fuck your self.

I have 100000000% respect for my parents. but they are hippies.

 

Well, I don't smoke pot, but I definatly never would with my parents if I had the slightest inclination to ever smoke. In my experience, the kids whose parents act more like friends rather than mentors are the ones who have screwed up lives. I live a nice, respectable neighborhood, but now a neightbor up the street allows her daughter to throw parties where the parents drink and smoke with their daughter and her friends. The girl and her friends brag about how many sexual partners they've had when they're on the bus (they're only 14) and generally look like losers but have no idea.

When that parental line breaks down I think that lines of right and wrong can break down. Sure there are exceptions, and there are slutty girls (and guys) who act the same way even when they have strict parents. I just really can't think of anyone that I know has smoked with their parents who are respectable now.

 

exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

okay what is wrong with you???

can you not have a good discussion without cussing??

thanks for telling me to fuck off, that just furthers my cause.

you cant think of any other retort other than telling me to fuck off.

good job.

 

I agree with a lot of what you said madcrappie. My parents NEVER smoked, ever. Every time I have ever thought what would it of been like I am really turned off by the idea. Funny thing though I think my Mom could use it every now and again. At times my Dad too.

My parents let us drink. My Dad bought me beer a couple times. The beer was meant for me to drink in the house. My parents never drank either aside from maybe a beer or two once a year.

I have children and I would never smoke with them. I think a teenager/young adult handles pot differently than an adult. There is too much going on. They have school, planing for their future. They are trying to adapt to Life and learn responsibility. Very few can keep it from corrupting their life. I want my boys to have a healthy start. If they do choose to smoke as an adult then I hope they can be responsible with it and not let it disrupt their lives.

 

i'm sorry but i see nothing wrong with smoking pot with parents......as long as both the parents and the kids are completly aware of what they are doing.....plus i think it's a bit of a bonding experience......my dad smoked pot before i was born and still may smoke to this day, and there are times i wish i could just see if he wants to get high with me.....but something always holds me back from asking, bad-timing or something......and i know many parents who smoke pot with their kids......i think there is a whole lot of worse things that families could be doing together.....


......for some people it just doesn't work, but for other people it does....


you can't just generalize people and say the parents who smoke pot with their kids are leading their kids to have degenerate behaviour later in life....

 

fuck the both of you bitches. my parents are big hippies and we smoke together and are just fine. and so am I. mabr your parents suck and are lame but not mine. they raised me with plenty of rouls and guide lines. but when I turned 20 they smoked pot with me and I turned out just fine.

 

oh yeah and so you tell people to fuck off on an internet forum. yeah you are fine. grow up.

 

and besides, you cant even spell "rules" correctly.

 

the more you talk, the more it shows how wrong it is for parents to smoke with their kids. thanx for being an example, my friend.

 

my 2cents, my wife & I never hid from our son when we smoked. He never had the desire to get high, although he has tried it before w/us. He just doesn't like the smell. We do however drink together. He's 25 now. Holds down a good job in the computer industry(makes alot more than me), has his own hosting service, and internet radio station, and lives one block from us here in beautiful downtown Newport Beach, CA.
We're all healthy, happy, and what was the question?

 

Dirtyworms if you feel you turned out fine and your happy with your experience I'm not putting you down for that. You have a right to your own opinion. I was just stating how I felt about it.

 

I can see how it could be a problem, and also how it could build a better relationship.

It really depends on the people involved - my mom and I are great friends, and she's been my friend for as long as I can remember. Yes, she's my mother too, she gives me a roof and electricity, love and guidance. But as my good friend, she was also a role model... not just some person who let me do whatever the hell I wanted. Her rules were reasonable, she explained them every time and if I could debate my way out of a rule she'd usually let me.

Big difference between being a friend and role model, vs being a parent who doesn't seem to care or worry.


and no, I don't smoke pot with my mom, but then, I don't smoke pot period. I have gotten drunk with her though.

 

and another thing,,,we need more cowbell!!!

 

hehe...more cowbell indeed.....

 

it really does depend on the people involved......