Kids SHOULD drink and experiment with pot; it’s part of the growing up process.

Wow how old is this argument… you can do anything and look up anything on the internet… why are people complaining now? Same thing with making a bomb, joining a cult, converting a gun to automatic…its all out there. Hell you can go watch comedy central and they smoke all the time on Chappelle show. It’s out there and too hard to block such content. Like Mike said, “its part of the growing up process”. They should do more comercials on what can happen when you get high or drunk. I know it worked for me and smoking cigarettes… all the pictures of people with holes in their throat, mouth and all. Sure sent a message to me. All they do now is say don’t do it. Well kids are going to expirement and find out their own way.

Kids should only experiment with that crap when they’re old enough and mature enough to know the consequences. I started drinking and having a good time at 19. Underage, no doubt, but mature enough to know that I wasn’t invincible and that if I screwed up it would haunt me for life. Too many kids now are given the OK to experiment and screw up but aren’t near old enough or mature enough to learn from those mistakes and they keep repeating them. From some of the situations I’ve seen this is because the parents are screwups also.

I love you, Mike Sharpe

I’m not gonna say kids “SHOULD” experiment with drugs and alcohol but for the most part it is an inevitability that every parent will have to deal with at one point or another. Realistically trying to filter out what you children see on the internet, while a noble cause, is probably offset by the fact that your average teenager is much more technologically inclined than your average parent. In the end they are gonna be exposed to these elements of socitey sooner or later. Whats more important is the example you set and how you deal with issues when they arise. Keep fighting the good fight…

I got high way before Al Gore invented the internet. The only change had it been there, is wikianswers would have told me not to bother with banana peels.

All I can say is that if that is what parents are worried about, they should re-examine their parenting skills and priorities. If a child is looking up these videos and ‘how-to’ clips, they’re most likely already interested or partaking in said activity and are looking for ways to make it more fun or interesting. When I was in high school we didn’t need videos to show us how to make bongs and pipes, we already knew! We used everything from ice cream containers and milk gallons to apples (yes, apples!) to get high. We didn’t need MySpace or FaceBook or YouTube to teach us. No content filter, no history-searching, no amount of parental shielding is going to keep kids from learning this stuff. Every other kid in school knows it already and is MORE than willing to share it. Just raise your kids right and allow them some room to be kids and teenagers. Remember, you weren’t perfect and if you think you were, sit there while your kids ask YOUR parents how you made mistakes in high school. And don’t interrupt your mom and dad when they snitch on you like an informant.

“if your kid has to get online to find out how to get high, don’t worry, they’re NOT getting high.”

This is for Mike “retard” Sharpe,
What an idiot. I hope you are not inbreeding with your sister(Hamsauce) and spawning retards like yourself. Obviously you have NEVER “grown up” yourself.

I think this is a cop out for parents. If you are active in your kids lives then they will turn out OK. Don’t blame too much TV or too much internet. Be a part of their lives and show them right from wrong. Stop blaming others.