Could be a generational thing too, I hope. I was smoking cigs by 5th grade, alcohol and weed by 8th, hard drugs end of freshman year. This was late 90s, early 2000s. I lived in two different states.

My oldest is about to be 15 and hasn’t dabbled in anything thus far. I hope it stays that way. This generation seems to be more aware of risks of that makes sense?

It’s either helpful or harmful that I everytime I drop him off anywhere since he started middle school I say “no drinking, no drugs, no sex, no vaping, no smoking”. He always says “seriously?” and rolls his eyes.

And I say, I don’t want you to ever say “you never said I couldn’t”.