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April 19, 2007, 5:07 pm PDT
Put the gloves down please....
Quote From: txgirl1013 AS for the comment that you are not able to determine the consequences of your actions at a young age, or before you are in your early twenties ...that is RIDICULOUS!! I am in my early twenties and it was not that long ago that I was a teen...I had girls at my high school that got pregnant young, and kids that partied and drank...but let me tell you the common thread with these kids was a SERIOUS LACK of parental involvement. I know I saw it first hand. Kids whose parents did not care where they were and what they did, they did not know their kids friends and truthfully did not want to be bothered with it anyway. I had parents that waited up for me if I was out....I had a curfew...they knew where I was and who I was with, and truthfully I never MADE the CHOICE to drink or to do drugs, because my parents taught me RIGHT from WRONG. I thought more of myself...yeah I was told "you are party pooper" "you are a nerd" I dont believe in peer pressure...I believe that if parents do not get involved in their kids lives...and set rules, that kids will fall for anything. You have to empower your kids to stand up for what is right, even if it is not popular. Parents need to wake up and be PARENTS!!! These were not my words, as a rabid Dr. Phil fan, he has said plenty of times that comment regarding young people. I am not too sure how the quote actually went, but he said that young people, before their twenties, did not have the part of their brain that determined consequences fully developed yet. Being as this is a Dr. Phil board, I was using a Dr. Phil comment, not mine.
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