fassbiki
03-06-2002, 08:13 PM
My teenager will be 19 in a couple of weeks and started smoking dope last summer. I have been to counciling and my teenager also went to one session. The next time I went to counciling I was told I have done a great job at raising my child and that my teenager has definate goals in life and I should be proud of myself. Should I be more concerned that the smoking started in the late teen years as opposed to an early age? He was so anti-drug until he joined the football team in his senior year of high school. It was near graduation when he started smoking dope. He is at the point where he would like to move out on his own, so I don't really have him under my thumb like I would a 15 year old. He works 30 hours a week and goes to the community college full time so he is responsible to an extent. He has a car and pays his own payments and the insurance. It seems like when he started hanging out with the "boys" he started experimenting with alcohol and smoking pot.