I'm a Freshman in college and a good friend of mine in high school was a year younger, so we kept in touch last semester playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live. I saw him over Christmas break and we got drunk and played Halo 2 at his dad's house. His dad got divorced when my friend was very young and always tried to be the "cool" dad...which was very cool when it came to alcohol. So I go back to school and don't see him on Xbox Live, which was a suprise considering we played every day the previous semester(I do mean EVERY day...sad but true). I figure he's got a lot stuff going on with classes and golf team and I don't want to call him and push him to play a video game with me.
So I get a call from a good friend of mine, who I played golf with in high school and is two years younger than me, to see if I wanted to play golf with him next weekend since he will be in town for a practice round. He tells me that my friend I discussed previously got caught with a small bag of pot, a pipe, and a pack of cigs by his dad. His dad proceeded to smash his pipe and iPod with a hammer right in front of him, made him eat the pack of cigs minus the filters, sold his 2005 Tahoe that he had put about $2000 worth of accessories on, banned him from everything except school , and took away his cell phone(he gave him one of those kid phones that can call 911 and 2 pre-set numbers...harsh). His life now consists of going to school, doing homework, and sitting in his room with no TV...what a senior year.
I guess drinking at 7 years underage is ok, but a little pot is the end of the world. Seems like weird parenting to me.
