I believe her. I know kids like that. You would say those are my biases. I am aware of them, and I am certain that they will color my interaction with my own daughter as well. Mommy's little monster is created by Mommy's little princess.
Some kids start out with drugs and sex and end up college-less, jobless, homeless and even dead.
Some of them may still smoke a joint on weekends, or do ecstasy at a New Year's Eve party or acid at Burning Man. Some of them may end up doing nothing more than having a glass of wine with dinner. And some of them may end up as newspaper columnists, as radio station owners or on their mothers' book tours. Morgan, Lara wrote in a recent Chronicle column, is already choosing her outfits for talk shows. Teens are getting the blame for their parents' failures.