Parents "know".. especially Mothers

[SoCalDem]

10. Most parents know if their kid has no friends

I have mothered three teen-aged boys..and have lived through the drug issue with one of them..It was no secret to me..

We also got several years of family counseling and individual counseling to help us all through the difficulties.

Only a parent who is not paying attention, does not notice that the kid is skipping school, sneaking out at night and generally F-ing up.

Rebellious/risky behavior is also part of teen years for many kids, and 99.9999% of them do outgrow it

Thankfully, our "bad boy" did and is about to be a first time Dad at 35 next month. He has thanked us many times for hanging in there with him while he figured things out.. We had no interest in guns and luckily our buys did not seem to be that interested either, but we always prayed that he would live long enough to grow up.. and he did.

We never were fooled by his secretive ways or his lies.. We always "knew".. But we acted and intervened big-time.

That said, he was never friendless/sullen/quiet/withdrawn/etc.. He was just a rebellious kid who grew out of it.