my brother is is 6th grade and smoking weed along with drinking

[BowToYourSensei]

lace the weed with bad PCP. he'll never smoke again.

[NozeCandy]

At least you don't have to worry about him drinking and driving.

[toohigh]

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OMG this is so easy.

Maury Povich boot camp!

Why am I the only one who sees the truth?

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ahahaha yes!!!!!!!!!

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Whateva! I do what I want!

[PattdownManiac]

My cousin is in 7th grade and told me he does coke. So I told on him!

[CaseS87]

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wow

your parents went a little off with you edd ( your still aok ) but they reallllly nailed your younger brother, spot on.

you can just pretend to be a trolly girl like thing on the internet....but your younger brother can smoke pot, drink, and get some, instead of pretending to be some.

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10 AM is a bit early to start drinking isn't it Ipot?

[mpethybridge]

My advice depends on whether your little brother knows that you know he smokes pot or not, and, equally importantly, whether you smoke pot and, if so, whether he knows. Both opinions come from my experiences raising my (now 18) daughter.


Option 1, he knows you know: This is the worst case scenario, because you are forced to try to reason with someone who really is more or less incapable of connecting actions with their consequences in the abstract. But your only option here is to point out the downside consequences. Mom and Dad will be pissed, you could wind up in court, etc. Don't take the well-reasoned argument route--try to scare him by forcing him to look at the consequences. Then you have to keep it up. Repetion is the key to learning.

Option 2, he doesn't know you know. In this case, you periodically have to drop anti-drug stories into your conversations with him--"so and so got busted," "so-and-so pot head is such a loser."

Both are long term projects. You can't just have a talk with him and hope this solves the problem. Option 2 is much better; my daughter tended to ignore my "lectures," but tended to soak up without really noticing my casual stories. I represented so many drugged out losers and told so many stories about them at home that my daughter was never even remotely tempted to use any drugs. But lecture as I might, she kept smoking cigarettes and goofing off in school.

Option 3, he knows you use. This is bad. It depends on how you feel about using and what you can truthfully say. "It is an adult decision," is the lamest sounding thing a kid can hear, but you may be stuck with it. Maybe repetition will sell it to him.

In any event, the gist here is that you want to help him to make the right decision--just hearing you say he is wrong will do nothing. But if he can't or won't come to the right conclusion, second best is to scare the bejeepers outta him.

Good luck.

[G Street]

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if he doesn't slow down and it's still pissin' u off, call the cops on him if u know he has posession, send him to your local DJJ for a few nights....

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worst advice ever.

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Right.

I've known at leat one kid this happened to... hates that family member still.

His brother isn't an addict, he hasn't killed anyone and is in 6th grade no need to call the law over weed. if this kid ended up in juvie on his brothers call it could scar him for life, not to mention all the terrible things that could happen when he meets real criminals on their ground. Bootcamp? does that [censored] work?

[derek luv]

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if he doesn't slow down and it's still pissin' u off, call the cops on him if u know he has posession, send him to your local DJJ for a few nights....

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Wow...just, wow.
The responses in this thread are border-line ridiculous.

[kemystery]

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Put $250 into my Stars account. Gamble.

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[mpethybridge]

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if he doesn't slow down and it's still pissin' u off, call the cops on him if u know he has posession, send him to your local DJJ for a few nights....

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Wow...just, wow.
The responses in this thread are border-line ridiculous.

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Yes they are.^