Strollerderby

This author is clearly lying about ever having smoked weed and is deluding herself that her wine playdates are not chemically altered.

I never, ever drink while caring for my children.  I dont even like to take cold medicines and will not drive unless it is an emergency.  I dont think getting mentally altered in front of your kids is a healthy thing to teach them.  

A friend of mine had parents (in the 70's) who used to find it funny to blow pot smoke in her face as a toddler.  At least this is nothing new.  It's sad their kids got taken away, but they had to know that would happen if anyone caught them smoking pot around them.

Please tell me that someone is abstaining from drinking the wine on these playdates... please.  While I don't mind having a glass of wine once my child has gone to sleep, drinking while they are still awake and running around seems almost as stupid and irresponsible as the potheads mentioned.  What if a child falls and is hurt enough to warrant a trip to the ER?  If you have had wine, who is going to drive them?  And please, please don't let the answer be that you are sober enough to drive after a glass... there is no such thing as sober enough.  It's either stone cold or not.

i think smoking pot in front of your kids is disgusting. my BIL was talking about how our nephew (my SIL's son) comes up to him while he is smoking pot and pretends that he is lighting a lighter, then reaches for the bong and says "mine, mine?" because he wants a turn. He is TWO! and they all think its funny, meaning his mom, dad, my mother in law, my other brother in law, and all of the other people that come over to smoke with them.

this is apparently the norm for them though. i know my husband grew up with it, five kids in his family, and his mom has smoked pot while pregnant with all of them, she has been smoking for more years than she hasnt.

im not going to say that i never did it, i was stupid, i know. but i would never do it in front of any child, let alone my own. its like smoking cigarettes in front of a child, you just dont do it.

Why is it any better to have a glass of wine after your child is asleep than to have a glass of wine while your child is awake?  Something could happen in the middle of the night such as your child falls out of bed and breaks a bone or has a asthma attack and needs to be rushed to the hospital.  

There is a difference between having a drink and being drunk.  I would never drink to the point of impairment but I will have a glass of wine with dinner.  And frankly I think that sends my kids a good message about how to enjoy alcohol in a healthy way.

To be fair, driving isn't an issue.  I live two blocks from the hospital so if my kid needed to go to the hospital, I would carry him there.

Gonna go out on a limb here and fess up that I have been known to have a drink (or more!) while my kids were around.  We even have had beer at kids birthday parties before, for our own kids' parties and at friends.  I think showing your kids healthy consumption of alcohol is good health education.  The general rule to avoid intoxication is keep it below 1 drink/hour.  2 beers during a 4 hour event is not going to endanger a child.  Relax, please!

I didn't read the article, but were they perhaps medical marijuana patients?  It's not extremely difficult to get a doctors recommendation to use medical marijuana in California, and I am just worried that law enforcement/social services may have been jumping the gun in their protective action.  In this case, using the substance would not have been illegal.  I'm sure the kids wouldn't have been removed if the parents were each having a beer out on the front porch.  Still, dumb.