Word: parented
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Trust me, nothing jolts a parent's nervous system more than the thought that his or her child may be using illicit drugs. Even when suspicious, parents are often afraid to ask. Will we alienate our children by accusing them falsely? Yet if we don't speak to them, how will they know that we are beside them if they need our help...
...cops on Chicago's North Shore see that kind of enabling behavior all the time. "Parents tell me they never go into their kids' rooms--then they wonder why they have a problem," says Officer Harty. No student has been convicted of a drug felony at New Trier in recent memory. When a kid does get caught in the prosperous communities of the North Shore, police and prosecutors frequently come up against formidable legal talent. "The first reaction of any parent is protection," says John Fay, juvenile officer for the Glencoe police department. "They hire the best because they...
...school and the police can't do much about pot use without the support and concern of parents, many of whom can't seem to decide whether to be the good cop or the bad cop with their kids. Emily, 48, turned into an enforcer when she found a pipe as she was redecorating her 16-year-old son's room. "I told him I didn't approve, that I didn't think it was necessary," she says. Emily's reaction wasn't as cool when another parent called to tell her that her 14-year-old daughter was smoking...
Before she caught her kids, Emily attended several meetings of Parent Alliance for Drug and Alcohol Awareness, which is linked to the New Trier school district. "I remember thinking these parents seemed so radical about marijuana," she says. Now she wonders whether random searches of lockers and mandatory drug testing ought to be introduced at school, two options Superintendent Bangser regards as unnecessary. But while she still considers the tone of PADAA too apocalyptic, she finds other parents too lackadaisical. "There's a definite head-in-the-sand attitude here," she says. "People figure our kids' SAT scores...
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