Peer Pressure

So last night when I pulled into my driveway. Calob came out and met me at the car.

He says "Mom me and Jacob have done something really bad and Daddy said we have to tell you about it ourselves."

First thought was Uh oh what have they done cause with boys I have learned you just never know what their gonna do next.

So I go inside the house take my shoes off sit down and wait.

Jacob comes out and has a seat. I look at Richard and say "you gonna give me some warning here so I know what to expect." And he says "nope I want you to get the full effect." Oh great here we go.

I then look at Calob with my Mommy knows all eyes and say what is going on Ca (pronounced Kay) And very fast he says we dipped.

So as we all know sometimes I am not the sharpest tool in the shed. And I say skinny dipping because we live next to a creek. And Richard starts laughing.

Jacob then pipes in and says "Mom we dipped tobacco. It was gross and we will never do it again. I felt bad and decided to come tell ya'll about it."

So of course we had the talk about saying no and not doing things just to fit in with your buddies. I think it went very well.

Now I know ya'll are all curious as to where the actual dip came from. No it was not me nor was it Richard. We have a small little rental house next door and their is a guy that lives there with his 2 sons B and T. B is 13 and T is 11. The boys have all become very good friends. Well apparently the Dad buys and lets his 13 year old dip tobacco. Which I think is completely absurd. Why would you do that? Now I may could understand if said son was old enough but there is a reason why you have to be 19 to buy tobacco products. Anyways Richard went over and talked to the Dad. And I think they have come to an agreement that B is not to bring it to our house nor offer it to the boys ever again. B is older and the boys wanted him to think they were cool I suppose. So peer pressure got the best of them. I am just glad that they didn't like it and that they made the right decision to be honest with Richard and I. We have always told the boys that if they do something wrong, if they just come and tell us about it so we can talk about it that their punishment will be alot less worse than if we were told by someone else or found out ourselves. I am so glad that they chose to do the right thing and tell the truth.

Guess I must be doing something right when it comes to this parenting thing.