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4 Year Old Brings Pot To School, School Bans Backpacks

Brett Singer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:30:00 GMT

When I was young and went to summer camp, people were always amazed when I said I was from the Bronx. I remember one kid actually took two steps back when I told him. Because people from the Bronx, you know, they were scary.

Clearly those guys didn't know what they were talking about. The really dangerous kids are from Florida. The 4 year olds.

Check this out:

A 4-year-old at a Tamarac preschool caused a furor when police say he pulled a plastic bag of pot from his book bag and casually told a classmate, "That's my brother's weed."

Can you imagine? What do you say to that? How does a 4 year old even know what "weed" is? His older brother, who is 21, must have told him when he hid his baggies in junior's bookbag.

The pot, by the way, is "scheduled to be destroyed." Wouldn't want to rush into anything, guys.

Here's the funny part. The school, in a reaction that I like to call "I have a headache THEREFORE I have a brain tumor", has banned bookbags. All of them. Because clearly, the backpacks are the problem. (Dora the Explorer had no comment.)

Source: Sun Sentinel and TRB.com via DetentionSlip and ParentDish

Image: Amazon

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Morning News: McCain Takes Aim at Obama's Fancy 'Copter

Madeline Holler — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:00:00 GMT

At yesterday's Fiscal Responsibility Summit -- attended by the President and high-ranking Congress members, not free-spending teens and their pursed-lipped mothers as the name might suggest -- John McCain scolded Obama for an expensive fleet of helicopters that could soon be at the president's disposal. "Your helicopter is now going to cost as much as Air Force One," the Arizona Senator said to his former rival, who basically said, "yeah, I don't think I need them either." NB: the helicopters were ordered during the Bush administration.

Obama's response should only endear him further to a large number of Americans. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll, he's get high marks for his first month in office and for the almost $790 billion stimulus package and the $75 billion mortgage bailout program. Nearly 8 in 10 respondents say the President has exceeded their expectations. Love fest? Not from everyone. Republicans aren't as happy as they were back during the trasition. And few of any party seem to like the idea of bailing out the auto industry. Michigan? Ouch?

Still, more, more, give them more!

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Nintendo Scrabble Game Drops the F-Bomb

JeanneSager — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:31:00 GMT

First it was the word "tits." The Nintendo Scrabble game offered the eight-year-old boy two definitions: a garden bird or an informal word for female breasts. A garden variety mistake? Not when you consider the game's next choice.

Ethan Carrington's handheld Nintendo DS spit out the word "f**kers" to win at Nintendo Scrabble - the f-bomb was worth a triple word score.

Before giving birth to my daughter, this would have cracked me up (OK, it still did, but I promise I shook my head in appropriate disgust while clutching my stomach). The rating on the game was for three and up, and well, I have a three-year-old now. So you'll excuse me my prudishness in agreeing with Tonya Carrington - this game has got to go. The English mother bought the game for her son because he enjoys English; she thought it would boost his vocabulary. Only she was thinking more Webster's, less salty sea sailor.

The thing is, he's probably heard the words on the bus. But in a game Mom and Dad bought? One that's meant to act as a teaching tool?

The game's maker, Ubisoft, told the Daily Mail that there's a junior option that can be enacted to ensure curse words don't make their way through to little kids. Carrington says she looked through the game book and didn't see any mention of a junior version, but then again - should she have to look? When you market a game at kids three and up, you sort of expect it to BE the junior version, don't you? Besides the fact that this is Scrabble, the game that's got leagues of grannies meeting in their living rooms on Tuesday afternoons. Are you really surprised that most parents felt safe handing the game straight over to their kids withoutchecking to ensure it won't teach their kids that "toke" means to "draw on a cannabis cigarette?"

Image/Source: The Daily Mail

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Renting Drug Dogs to Search Your Kid's Room: Over the Top or Not?

JeanneSager — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:44:00 GMT

Think your kid's smokin' the reefer? Excuse the trip back in time, but the company renting out drug dogs so parents can take them tromping through their teens' bedrooms seems, well, like Joe McCarthy's back and teaching parenting classes.

Sniff Dogs has offices in Ohio and New Jersey and five Labrador retrievers who they say can catch a whiff of a doobie from as far as 15 feet away. The dogs are in and out of the room in five minutes, and the process only happens when a parent is at home. They're even trained to stop and sit at the spot where the scent is strongest, so parents can have the ultimate decision as to whether they want to search the spot or just bring the kids in, have the chat and see if the kids will own up themselves.

None of us want to see our kids on drugs, but isn't this a little . . . I don't know . . . Gestapo-esque? Whatever happened to confronting your kids on your own authority instead of the know-how of a dog's nose? Or making them systematically take their room apart while you watch and direct?

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Teenagers allegedly gave pot and beer to a six year old

Brett Singer — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:30:00 GMT

From the "WTF" files (actually, 1010 WINS news radio) comes this story:

Three teenagers are accused of giving marijuana and beer to a 6-year-old and videotaping the intoxicated youngster for their amusement in Vernon. The two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old are charged with child endangerment. They will also likely face drug offenses, police said.

The teenagers were sitting around drinking and toking up and figured it would be funny to give the pipe to someone's little brother. Then they fed the little guy beer through a funnel. I'm saying "allegedly" because that's what you do in these stories, but according to 1010 WINS, one of the parents discovered four videos on one of the teens' cell phone that shows the whole incident.

While the "6-year-old is being screened for psychological and substance abuse problems," I think the three teenagers should be screened for the former as well. This certainly sounds like evidence of psychological problems to me.

Source: 1010 WINS
Image (not from this story, just seemed appropriate): drinkingstuff.com

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Circle Time: Latest Kids Lit Explains Why/How You Get High

Madeline Holler — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:01:00 GMT

It's official: my kids have the most boring books in America (and, alternatively, the most boring parents, too).

Not only do we not have the new kids book on plastic surgery, we also don't have It's Just a Plant, a 48-page children's story on why Mommy and Daddy get high.

Here's the beginning of the story in a tightly packed nutshell:

One night, little Jackie walks in on her mom and daddy passing a joint. Rather than scream or wave the smoke away or stammer and call them "happy candles," Mom and Dad invite Jackie onto their bed where Mom introduces the term "marijuana." (Dad's totally bogarting the joint while mom does the talking: see above pic). Turn the page and there's a jarring picture of Jackie and one of her parents whose clothes appear to be referencing the Sgt. Pepper's album cover, and you're like, "what are they, high?" Turns out it's Halloween (random!) and they're riding bikes to Farmer Bob's -- Mommy and Daddy's weed man.

Farmer Bob tells Jackie about the different parts of the marijuana plant. He confesses he doesn't smoke it since it "just makes me sleepy." (Farmer Bob, I so feel you!) Then Jackie's mom takes her to see Dr. Eden (note the trippy interior). Dr. Eden explains marijuana is just for grown-ups, not for kids.

Later, they walk by a group of guys, whom Jackie fingers like a little narc, "you're smoking marijuana!" at which point these men (all black, which might be relevant later on in the book, not sure, feels weird though) all tell her their preferred term for ganga/reefer/cheeba cheeba/sweet leaf ...

In comes an Officer Of The Law! "Hands against the wall!" Jackie's confused. The officer explains to the incredulous girl, "these men were smoking what I call grass!"

Which is when Jackie learns what her parents do is illegal, and also the cliffhanger moment.

Hey, anybody know how the story ends? Does Jackie become an activist? Or does she turn her parents in at the behest of her school's D.A.R.E. program officer?

Anybody shelling out the $15 for a little help in discussing their own Smoking While Parenting lifestyle?

Let's make some predictions? What's next in kids lit? Why Mommy Needs to Swab Your Cheek: Life After the FLDS Compound?

Image: It's Just a Plant

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Dad's Monkey is Mom's Monkey, Too

Adrienne Martini — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:00:00 GMT

In theory, kicking your substance of choice -- whether that is booze, smokes or something more illegal -- should be a piece of cake. Just stop doing it, right? The reality of quitting is a completely different beastie. But cleaning up is even more important when there is a small person in the works.

Moms have a biological reason to stop smoking/drinking/etc when the bun is in the oven and are often able to use that as a tool to quit. Dads, however, seem to get a free pass. A new study out of the University of Washington indicates that dad's habits have a huge impact on mom's behavior, too.

Researchers studied a group of young (21-24 year old) parents. Almost all of those new moms who quit while pregnant were back at the bar and/or bong two years later. Dads didn't appear to cut back their use at all, which created a household environment that made it nearly impossible for mom to stay sober.

Perhaps it may be time, as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board suggests, to stop giving dads a free pass. Or, at least, to realize that they contribute something other than sperm to a growing child.

Duuude, Pot Smoking Kids Do Better Than Abstaining Peers

Kelly Mills — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:23:00 GMT

So much for "stay in school and don't do drugs." As it turns out, in one study kids whose drug of choice was marijuana were "'more socially driven ... significantly more likely to practice sports and they have a better relationship with their peers' than abstainers." Ooooh, also: "'Even though they are more likely to skip class, they have the same level of good grades; and although they have a worse relationship with their parents, they are not more likely to be depressed' than abstainers." I guess the drug talk should go something like: "Darling, drugs are bad, but I'll totally understand if you need to smoke a little weed to do well in school, okay?"

Caveats here. Kids who used both tobacco and marijuana were more likely to be heavy pot smokers, and the results weren't true for them. The kids here were also between the ages of 16 and 20. The study was done on 5,000 Swiss kids, and bong hits are on the rise among Swiss kids and kids from some other European countries. However, pot smoking has declined among U.S. teens. Hey, maybe that's why we're falling behind other nations in terms of education and social values. Somebody call Michael Moore!

Teacher Admits to Smoking Pot, Being Human

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:54:00 GMT

Benjamin Ayson, 32, a Mililani Middle School teacher on the Big Island of Hawaii recently pleaded no contest to possession of marijuana. Like plenty of teachers before him, Mr. Ayson is guilty of being human. He and his co-worker, fellow teacher Lisa Luhrsen were observed smoking pot at a park and ride before heading to school.

It's clear that parents get worked up when educators behave badly. And concern about the moral turpitude of our children's teachers seems appropriate. To a point.

On the other hand, teachers are paid poorly for work that is getting harder each day. The requirements of No Child Left Behind and managing increasingly behaviorally troubled kids must take its toll. I'm not excusing a little before work pot-smoking. But I can see how it might help one get through the day.