How many are hypocritacal parents?

Question

When it comes to drugs do you tell your kids not to do them or try them, even though you did or at least tried them when you were younger?
Just thinking about what i'm gonna tell my kids when they are old enough.

Answer 1

My kids know the whole truth about drugs, as they were around when I hit my bottom. Like the sweetest elf, I am a recovering addict, and my children have been a big part of my recovery - I take them to meetings, they know my friends in the program, they know about what I did, and what it did to me. I caution my kids against doing drugs, but don't lecture or threaten them. I try to be loving and understanding, because I want them to feel comfortable telling me the truth. I think the most important thing for any parent is to keep the level of trust high, and the communication lines open.

Answer 2

When your kids are old enough, you'll tell them to not do drugs. Depending on how open the lines of communication are, you might even tell them that you did drugs...

I don't consider being honest with my child about the dangers of drugs at all hypocritical, even though I am a recovering addict. I would never tell my child to walk in front of a moving vehicle, or even tell him that it's ok to do, even though I did just that.

Answer 3

Here's the truth plain and simple:

If you tell your kids to not start on drugs and tell em you used it when you were a kid, you just doubled the chances of your kid using drugs. Even if you tell em that drugs are not good, they are gonna be curious and say "If my parents used it, there has to be something good about it". So if you used drugs when you were a child and are telling em to not use drugs, you might as well dont say anything and leave that to D.A.R.E. and other school programs.

Answer 4

I've never used. I will tell my kid not too.

When you experience someone you know jumping into an empty pool on angel dust, it pretty much cures any curiosity one may have, as it did me.

EDIT: Oh- and I also know of a person who died a horrible death when his dealer put Drano in his heroin and he shot it up. It took him several hours to die and doctors could do nothing to help him.

Answer 5

I don't have kids but I think its pretty safe to say that I would defiantly be a "Do as I say not as I did" kinda parent. I don't think its hypocritical, its just that you want better for your children than you had.

Answer 6

You mean "Do as I say not as I do!" Well I'm really open with my girls I'm going to do everything in my power to make them smart, independent, and respectable women. If they choose to try something when they're older that's their choice, now if I find out about it that's a different story, I certainly won't be smoking out with them.

Answer 7

yes, i tried it when younger and yes, i'll tell her not to. i don't see it as hypocritical - who better to tell her what it can do to her life than someone who's been down that road? all i need to do is pull out my wedding album & show her pictures of my first marriage - it was destroyed when he went to prison for his drug addiction.

Answer 8

I told mine that if they wanted to try them, it was their mistake to make. I told them my experiences with drugs in my life. And lastly, I told them if they ended up in jail or detox that I would still love them, but that it was their mistake and they have to suffer the consequences.

Answer 9

I'm honest with them. I would tell them not to do it because its consequences. I have very good communication with them.

Answer 10

my mother is an alcoholic and she preaches the evils of pot all the time. yet, she will go out and drive to the store for more beer or whatever, while she is wasted.