This means that scoring and using drugs becomes an end in itself, and often a costly and time-consuming one, at that. It prevents you from understanding what is going on in your life. It prevents you from having real happiness. And it's dangerous. I believe we have to instill a great deal of joy and confidence in our children before they get to be teenagers in order to protect them through those hard years.
Parents tend to blame themselves for things that are culture-wide.
The difference between moderate experimentation and catastrophic drug taking is vast. We should not get desperately alarmed about mild social experimentation. But we should get desperately alarmed about the child who is compelled to use drugs. It's so easy to make that statement, and so hard to live by it Saturday night by Saturday night. Roiphe, Author .