As a teen I experimented with recreational drugs.. and although I never had any problems with addiction, it is a decision I regret all the time. When you are young, you don’t always consider the long term effects doing drugs can have on your mind and body. I have not done or even considered doing drugs in many years, even before I had a child. However, I know people who smoked marijuana after having children and through their childhood, and I will tell you that although some people consider this an “innocent” drug.. It can definitely not only negatively impact not only your ability to properly care for your child, but as your child gets older it will definitely impact them personally as well. The child will grow up thinking it is acceptable behavior to do drugs, and most likely end up doing them themselves. Not to mention, the dangers it poses even having these kinds of substances in the home with a child, it is just immature behavior and quite frankly drugs are illegal for a reason. If drugs are more important then properly caring for your child(ren) then you should not have children, at all.

I experimented with pot, hallucinogens and prescription drugs a few years back when I was going through a difficult time, but I stopped a while before I fell pregnant with my 1st baby, and I don’t do anything like that anymore, because I grew up watching my father and stepmom doing drugs, and they were shitty parents, and I never want to be like them.

i absolutely DO NOT agree with your friend, crack is something you dont mess with, and its very addictive, soon the weekends will turn into everyday, and its not good for children to be in such an environment. i mean i could understand maybe smokin a little bit of pot here and there, or having a few drinks when your kids are gone, but crack? thats just taking it too far, and soon will be beyond your control.

when i was younger, i experimented, i partied a lot, but i wasnt a bad kid. just the normal rebellious teenager if you ask me. before i found out i was pregnant, i still partied, not a lot, just every now and then. when i finally DID find out i was pregnant, i completely stopped everything. i dont smoke or drink. i feel healthier, and ive always wanted to quit smoking cigarettes well if it wasnt for my baby i would have never accomplished that its rather sad i couldnt do it for myself, but when my baby came along it was a piece of cake. the important thing is, i stopped. and now that i am clean, i dont plan on ever going back to smoking or drinking.

i have a friend who has 2 kids, she smokes cigarettes, but only about 5 a day. she drinks, but not around her kids, and she does it moderately. my mother smoked cigarettes when i was younger, and as i grew older i found out she smoked marijuana on occasion, and drunk on occasion. but that never made her a bad mother, she has always gave me everything i needed, been there for me, we have always been close, she has never neglected me, abused me, or put drugs before me, its always been about me all the way up until i got pregnant myself, and now that i have my child she’s still here for me AND my baby

She is a great mother, i dont care about her habits, it doesnt make her a different person. i dont look down on her for her faults.