Posted at 7:49 AM on January 14, 2008
by Julia Schrenkler
Bob Collins wonders: When do you trust your kids or trust the school? How do parents of teens handle drinking - or suspected drinking - issues? How do you decide when to have a conversation and when to deal out consequences? Is earlier better? Sandra replied:
Better to learn these lessons while the consequences are small and the cost is a little hurt pride or a few missed games or a sense of "I didn't do that and it's not fair", than have to learn by losing a job, a license, or possibly a life.