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• You Haven't Had "The Drug Talk" Yet, Have You?

  I am a failure as a parent. And it's likely you are, too!   Have you had "the drug talk" with your kids yet? Or better, still, a series of drug talks?  About all mine know (11, 7 and 3) is that drugs are "bad". We haven't yet talked much about what drugs actually are, though I have mentioned cigarettes (bad!) and alcohol (bad! except when mommy has some!) as being drugs. And I'm not alone. Less than half of parents of high school kids reported having "frequent" (four times a year or more) conversations about drugs with their kids. Read More... Posted Aug 08 2007, 01:11 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: kids, health, drugs, drugs and kids, drug use, talking to kids

• Strollerderby Playdate: Just Say No

  Because everyone in my family has an obsessive, addictive personality--generations of us, folks--I fully expected the kid to be sniffing magic markers and sneaking chocolate by this point. So far, however, her natural fickleness appears to have saved her from being the kind of person who shouldn't touch heroin and who takes down an entire cake in two days. The blogosphere? Not so. Some people clearly have kids like me. Perhaps there was some mix-up at the hospital. At Blonde Mom Blog, there's a little trouble with strawberry milk. Rehab was mentioned. Gawd, I love an intervention. We had 'em as often as Christmases. Rockstar Mommy's angel may be drawn to bad men. Join the club, honey.   A Homer book is causing some drama at the Institutional Mouthpiece of Kjel. There's suspicions that bigger issues may be contributing. At least the li'l one still loves his bro.   Not That I Don't Love My Kids is taking a good, hard, funny look at some codependency. One day at a time, sister! I've been there too.     Posted Jul 27 2007, 07:05 AM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: parent bloggers, strollerderby playdate, Dad blogs, drugs and kids, mommy blogger

• Flavored Meth-For-Kids. No, Really!

  I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this, but I think either way it's a scary and disturbing new trend: methamphetamine is now being marketed directly at kids in a new product called Strawberry Quick, which incorporates the addictive drug with a Kool-Aid-like powdered, flavored drink mix. Which gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid". I'm reading about this, and writing about it, while all the time saying to myself, "Well, my kids will never be exposed to this." I have the sinking feeling that I could be wrong, that this is way more pervasive than I allow myself to admit. Which makes it all the more important to really know what's going on with our kids, even when they're younger than we think they might be when exposed to drugs for the first time, helicopter parenting notwithstanding.  This isn't a few high-school kids smoking a little pot on the edge of school property anymore while thumbing their noses at the principal. Drugs are a huge business and they're after our kids, and I think I need to wake up to this fact instead of pretending it could never happen to my kid. What do you think? Do you worry about your kids and drugs?  Posted May 02 2007, 04:02 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: meth, drugs and kids, helicopter parenting, kool-aid