I was chatting with my daughter this morning. I can’t exactly recall what started the conversation but my daughter started talking about a friend of hers and the familial issues going on. The mom and dad are fighting big time. The father is using drugs. They have a 7 year old son that has Asperger’s and the daughter over heard the father say that he never wanted another child and now they have this to deal with. This obviously meaning the handicap.
Things aren’t going well at all in the house and my daughter confessed that her friend, an 8th grader is using marijuana. She even confessed to me that she knows a lot ( I can’t qualify what “a lot” is) of people that do drugs. Even that she has been offered what sounded like more than once. My daughter goes to public school, but she was told me she was offered the drugs at a local catholic school dance. A brother of a friend of hers sells it apparently.
The girl that is using is your typical kid from my point of view at least. I have met the girl’s mother that my daughter said is using. In fact, the girl has slept over my house recently. That same evening of the sleep over my daughter and this girl went to the movies together. I later found out that they went into the movies and when the coast was clear bailed on the movies and walked around the Movies 10 area. I told the girls mother when I learned they had sneaked out and she was very appreciative that I had said something even going on to tell me more about she has caught her daughter doing similar things in the past. And, that she has lectured her about hanging out with the wrong crowd that is in that area. I felt it was my parental obligation to let her know what had happened while technically the child was under my authority.
The Question:
Should I tell the mother that my daughter told me that she is using drungs?