how do u talk to your kids about molly? Electric Zoo aftermath

[The Ref]

Sadly, there's nothing you can say to teenagers. Not really. You just hope they get through the experimentation years like the rest of us did. The more you say, the more you're tuned out. You know that.

[TRENT]

sure...

take 2 and call me in the morning,,My brother is down in Boca.No basement or Attic..

yea dude its an expression...Home with people who care,, letting them know they can call U or a sibling is the thought..

[Drama Queen]

It comes down to what TGP said along with surrounding themselves with good friends. ...and you hope they withstand peer pressure in some social settings.

Other than doing weed and recreational cocaine sometimes in college, I've never dealt with any real exposure to drugs. Frankly, I'll be working in the down play of taking drugs. How do you teach a kid about knowing what drug is good? Since its illegal, you really have no idea.

[Drama Queen]

Hahaha... I know.

I have a soon to be 12 year old, so this thread has me thinking. I confident but not stupid enough to think that she's not going to party.

[Clemson Foreaker]

Nothing new here

Take a matchhead of tic a roher 714 six pack of couple of molson golden ale and couple of puffs of lamb's breath and call me in the morning...

oh and where's my Molly Hatchet 8 track?

Sorry but that stuff's been around since the 80's.

[rdog5]

I am a father of a 19 y/o and 17 y/o.

1st amd foremost is openly talk to your kids without judgment. Accept they are going to try things and make mistakes and those mistakes are not reflective of parenting ability. Your reaction to mistakes and use of them to improve is where parenting comes in.

2nd I brought my kids up encouraging them to be healthy in both fitness and what they put into their body. I feel this pride in self significantly impacts their decisions. Someone concerned with their health is not going to want to put these substances in their body.

There is much more but these are 2 that come to mind.

[muggz]

Sound advice...

It's really about what you've done since the time they were born. Is there love in the house? Do you and your wife show affection toward each other and toward the kids. Are the parents on the same exact page when it comes to discipline. Do they see the parents abusing alcohol and drugs? Are you honest with your kids? Do they respect you? Do you respect them? Do you take time to talk or do you just tell them to go play and you go watch the basketball game? Do you LISTEN to them? Are you so strict as a parent that they have to hide things from you? Do you have so many rules that they feel suffocated? Do you work to build up their self esteem? I could go on and on. The point is that it's not as easy as one discussion.

Was thinking the same when I read Diggle's original question.

If you feel like it's gotten to the point where you need to have 1 conversation to save them from doing it, you've pretty much already lost the battle. It has to be a full commitment from when they are little of being patient and creating a mutually honest relationship.

A particular conversation no matter how well crafted is probably not going to make up for a family culture that has been created over years.

[Two Gap Penetrator]

I wouldn't expect you to know about this, but....

....can you imagine what this is going to do to these shows? Probably going to hurt attendance.

[Diggle]

exact opposite. Shit is blowing up

[IronEagle]

exact opposite. Shit is blowing up

What would Kelly Green think?

http://gawker.com/the-worlds-highest...-in-1155235447

[Two Gap Penetrator]

He still wants to know......

...who Molly is.

[Diggle]

Kelly Green thinks Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadian Orchestra is the only real music

[BigSlizz]

You teach them morals growing up, so they simply don't do it.

[Riccardo]

I had never heard of the use of "molly" for that before

Now I'm gonna ask my son and his friends if they know what it is

[IronEagle]

Here's some more about adulterated Molly. I find the video in the post from Vancouver a little disturbing.

http://gothamist.com/2013/09/05/bad_...ston_overd.php

In case you're not familiar with PMMA: it's a molecule closely related to MDMA, but with much less of the desired empathogenic/euphoric effect, and unfortunately quite a bit more toxicity. The dose curve is a lot steeper, and the effects are delayed compared to MDMA. Often what has happened in these fatalities is that somebody takes one or two pills, and doesn't get the expected effect, so takes more, and that's enough to push them over into the toxic range.