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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 509675" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I am going to suggest that your difficult child is doing a lot more than smoking pot and is certainly getting drunk. My daughter fooled me too. She was doing everything under the sun, but mostly did it away from home or at night after we went to sleep. Most kids will cop to pot, and swear it is all they use, but if the child is truly in bad shape it is normally a lot more than pot.</p><p></p><p>On the car situation, I have a different take on it. I wouldn't contribute to his driving under any circumstance. We bought our daughter a car, when we thought it was "just pot", and she totaled the car and could have been killed and the accident was her fault. Her brother felt sorry for her after that and he bought her a car, although we warned him not to. She totaled the car and she could have been killed. After she was tossed out, at 18, she went down to Illinois to live with this brother and before she quit using drugs she totaled another car, could have been killed, and was sued for $15,000. Years after she was sober, she was still paying back the $15,000. Drugs, drinking and driving are very dangerous. If it were me, I would make him find his own way to school, if he still wants to go (that's if he is really even going). At least then it would not be on my head if he got into a serious car accident. Maybe he can walk or ride a bike (good exercise) or let somebody else take him. I think I would rather drive my kid back and forth than drive him if I knew he was on drugs, but this is in hindsight. </p><p></p><p>Until my daughter quit using drugs, we had no clue how much drugs and drinking she was doing. And I suspect you don't either. Big hugs...and please take care of yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 509675, member: 1550"] I am going to suggest that your difficult child is doing a lot more than smoking pot and is certainly getting drunk. My daughter fooled me too. She was doing everything under the sun, but mostly did it away from home or at night after we went to sleep. Most kids will cop to pot, and swear it is all they use, but if the child is truly in bad shape it is normally a lot more than pot. On the car situation, I have a different take on it. I wouldn't contribute to his driving under any circumstance. We bought our daughter a car, when we thought it was "just pot", and she totaled the car and could have been killed and the accident was her fault. Her brother felt sorry for her after that and he bought her a car, although we warned him not to. She totaled the car and she could have been killed. After she was tossed out, at 18, she went down to Illinois to live with this brother and before she quit using drugs she totaled another car, could have been killed, and was sued for $15,000. Years after she was sober, she was still paying back the $15,000. Drugs, drinking and driving are very dangerous. If it were me, I would make him find his own way to school, if he still wants to go (that's if he is really even going). At least then it would not be on my head if he got into a serious car accident. Maybe he can walk or ride a bike (good exercise) or let somebody else take him. I think I would rather drive my kid back and forth than drive him if I knew he was on drugs, but this is in hindsight. Until my daughter quit using drugs, we had no clue how much drugs and drinking she was doing. And I suspect you don't either. Big hugs...and please take care of yourself. [/QUOTE]
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