I’m gonna go with targeting a market that is now saturated with small sleek tech devices vs. marketing to kids.

Weed is not a “gateway drug.” It’s not addictive, it doesn’t cause you to move to harder drugs, and it’s way less harmful than alcohol. Don’t buy into the DARE shit.

I’m trying to post this in a concise form: your kid is in an incredibly vulnerable place right now. You are right to worry about him doing things for approval from his peers/you. The replies where they’re pointing out that you’ve ruined his high school social life? They’re right too. What he needs right now is outside…

Product of an overbearingly strict household growing up here: your kid will grow resentful of you and will rebel more due to you treating him like this. I have a great relationship with my parents now (I’m 26), but there was a lot of resentment and tension in the high school/college years due to how much they tried to…

My grandfather passed a few weeks ago so went out of town for the service and ended up driving around my 14 year old cousin. She’s one of those HS freshman who act like they’re 22. Anyway, she pulls out a Juul and hands it to me. Because I’m an old, I thought it was a fun vape and took a big old pull. First…

Good job, youre kid will now grow up to hate you and will be a burnout stoner as soon as he graduates because you punish instead of educating.

No offense, but if this is real and not a (pretty good) troll job, it sounds like your son has a much bigger problem than vaping, being impressionable, or wanting to fit in. Pulling him out of class and taking him into the principal to confess and rat out the rest of his friends sounds like something that will have…

I sat there while he ratted out every kids real name from the buy/sell group as I scrolled the list and couldn’t help but be a little sad at how quickly he cracked to save his own tail.

So in summation: you are a crazy helicopter parent, and you’re raising a rat.

As a parent I wanna say that sounds rather harsh. How about a slap on the wrist for a first time offender. I mean, even letting him rat out his own ‘friends’? The poor kid will probably have no life at school until graduation.

Your kid is 15 and not allowed to use social media? No wonder he’s rebelling.

I’m mostly concerned that these are just a start with the legalization of marijuana in my state.

Counterpoint: I (and most of my friends) started chewing when we were Freshman. But I don’t do it anymore; it was just an adolescent phase. I (and those friends too) managed to get into great colleges. You (and the school administrators) may not only be overreacting but also making it much more appealing by coming…

My (and probably a million other peoples’) theory: They’ve fucked, but aren’t fucking now*.

Jesus Christ. Her name is Virtue, Barry. Of course, they’re fucking.

I’m on level 4 here but hurtling toward 6

Having worked in public and private schools, I think it’s generally easier to get hired at private school. The one I worked at was mostly people right out of college getting some experience. Some people also enjoy the smaller class sizes (~12 vs 40 now for me) and just get comfortable.

I worked at a christian school…

Carlota ‘Morales’, LOL

Which is why a lot of models work really, really hard in that short span of a career, to ensure an early retirement, or have at least enough money to go onto the next stage of their career.