Do I have any
parents on my flist? I've been around kids my entire life, I have 13 (soon to be 14) neices and nephews, I've been babysitting since I was ten, but I feel so lostttttt now that some of them are getting older.
My nephew started 8th grade back in August and he goes in a... bad neighborhood. Like, ghetto bad. I mean, there's probably 1 in every 20 kids who don't own a gun. In middle school. And I don't just say this to say it, I say it by way of saying; it's terribly, terribly easy to access drugs/alcohol.
So, like, are you supposed to LIE to kids? I mean, is that the right thing to do?
I guess what I'm asking is this: Is it better to lie to a kid when they ask you a direct question, or is it better to tell them the truth and hope that they're not like, "well, my aunt did this, that, and the other thing, so I can, too."?
The question he's been asking me over and over again is if I've ever done drugs and when I started having sex. If I were to sit him down and tell him the truth to those questions, it'd sound something like, "Well, if you can think of the drug, I did it. If you can't, I probably did that, too. I had sex when I was ____(insert way too young here)." and I wouldn't want him to know that, right? So, I guess I'm just really at a loss for what I should say and I feel bad, because his mother (my sister) hasn't been by to visit him in nearly a year and his dad's kind of absent, so he has my boyfriend and I, and I feel like I owe him an honest answer?
I don't know, guys. So, if I have any parents on my list, and you'd like to drop me a comment or a message on your opinions , I'd so greatly appreciate it.
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