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...mom is no dummy. She spent her evenings at home, where "quality time" was making homemade bread and propaganda, indoctrinating me about the dangers of everything that sounded like fun. The conversations evolved from Cheerios are better for you than Froot Loops to no sex before marriage, no drinking to excess and certainly no drugs. I was the last of my friends to live under a midnight curfew; I always had to be home for dinner; and if I was going out, I had to leave a phone number...
...went along with her. Thou Shalt Not Smoke Pot is not the 11th Commandment, I rationalized. Armed with that perspective and the sound of my mother's voice in my head, I could tinker with the rules and push the boundaries without being afraid I would cross them. So, Mom, it was your fault after...
...Everybody here overplays marijuana, like it's some horrible thing," says Melinda, a senior who wants to attend an East Coast college. "It's not just something that 'bad' people do. My dad went to an Ivy League school, and he and my mom both tried it in high school." Her parents' concern, she says, is that she'll buy pot laced with speed or crack. But Melinda, who seems representative of the average user at New Trier, smokes only occasionally and seems able to take it or leave it. "The people with problems are the ones who want being...
...junior who sports a nose ring, was caught smoking pot on the street last spring, her mother arrived at the police station in a fury. "She just kept slapping me in the face, left and right," the 17-year-old remembers. But the anger only went so far. "My mom and I didn't tell my dad," Marta says. "He would have gone ballistic, and I would never get my car." Marta figures her mother thinks getting busted has scared her straight, but it has not. And she still expects her promised...
...Little Smart Talk 'n Tell $30; VTech; ages 3 to 6 Looking gratifyingly like Mom or Dad's cellular, complete with antenna and stand, this toy phone plays jaunty tunes while teaching children shapes and counting. Its special feature is that parents can program a phone number in their home, and the toy will repeat it to kids, ask them to dial it and learn...