My Parents Found Out I Smoke Weed. What Should I Do About It?
Question by Bay Bay: My parents found out i smoke weed. What should i do about it?
My parents recently found out that i smoke weed. They were disappointed about it of course. I’m not worried about my “punishment” because I know everything has a consequence, I’m just worried about not seeing the people i would smoke with. They told me I couldn’t hang out with my guys anymore and they also said they were gonna tell my friends parents. I don’t want them to get in trouble too. I want my parents to trust me again, but how do i gain back their trust? Either way im gonna disappoint them because they told me not to hang out with the guys i smoke with and that’s a problem because im in love with one of the boys i smoke with, and im gonna see him if they like it or not. It’s usually 4 or 5 boys i smoke with and im usually the only girl. My dad is a police officer and my mom is a “counselor” she talks to drug addicts to try to make them change their ways. Im not asking for help about the smoking part because i honestly don’t care anymore, i’m not worried about it. Im asking how to gain their trust back and how to convince them to let me still hang out with my friends, so please don’t say the usual, “stop smoking its not good, your stupid, don’t you know what your doing to yourself”. Somebody help?
Best answer:
Answer by Linds
Honestly? There’s nothing you can do. Your parents won’t let you hang out with them until not only you stop smoking, but they stop smoking as well. They aren’t going to willingly let you hang out with them knowing that you will/could smoke with them.
In your parents eyes they are a bad influence and they don’t want you around that. They are also probably thinking, if you are smoking weed now, what else have you tried or could try? And they are thinking the group you hang out with are the ones who got you started smoking weed and could get you to try other things as well.
If you want your parents to trust you then you have to truly make an effort. Don’t lie to them, Tell them what is going on etc. BUT be 100% upfront with them. Sure you are smoking weed and that’s not good but you lied to them and kept it from them. You could have been upfront and told them. They’d still be mad but not as mad as they are now. And not just mad but disappointed.
Why don’t you ask them how you can earn their trust back. It will mean a lot to them if you do.
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