Popehat: Struggling to adjust parenting subroutines to meet new age parameters

Struggling to adjust parenting subroutines to meet new age parameters

/2 Actually this particular kid works as a clerk in my office and I found out one of the junior associates gave her excellent OpSec and safety advice about doing shots and I’m not even mad

the best advice for any Vegas trip is, upon settling at the hotel, to go immediately to the store and buy like three big bottles of Pedialyte

If you go in August, that’s even a good idea for Mormons. I have never experienced nature actively trying to kill you like that, at least anywhere that humans choose to live.

Nobody in their right mind would ever stand around outside, so you gotta be inside! With air conditioning! …where they can sell you drinks and tempt you with gambling.

even inside the RH is like 10% moisture flies screaming away from your body at all times

Because air conditioning dries out the air, and Vegas will never not be a total desert hellhole.

The Strip isn’t bad on foot…if you don’t mind a decent hike. The stalls have some cool options and they’re cheaper than indoors. But millennials don’t gamble as much so cartels had to boost drink & food prices. Now even with a decent savings a night of real drinking would be a frightening thought.

yeah you can spend less money slow-playing a blackjack table for the drinks even if you lose most of the time

pedialyte and chapstick are indispensable even for non-drinkers

Any unguarded drink in Vegas has plutonium in it when you get back

How many pounds of paper are you dropping on their desk later anyways?

Yeah my kid has an adult whose job is to help them do stupid things safely right now but who is up for being a trusted source for this kind of information when they are not in elementary school. I have that job for a friend's kid. We are both happier there is a trusted source.

Gotta teach the How, and that means even the things you’d rather they not do but you know they probably will.

Have only one daughter, she's 25. My first advice to her even to this day is: smart choices.

Your kid is in Vegas with all of the Phish fans for 4/20?

it takes a village

My Dad would say, "Be good, and if you can't be good, be safe".

"Be good, be safe, have fun. In that order."

Mine would add “call if you need a ride”.

"... And if you can't be safe, don't name it after me."

“Look, drink and fuck, whatever, just remember that you only have so much money and I am NOT paying it off”

It's not easy. A couple of weeks ago: "Have a good pub crawl."

When my kids turned 18 I bought them each keychains that day “Drive safe, your mom fucking loves you” and I just occasionally remind them to look at it.

My sons are now 34 and 30 and I sleep so much better.

Just set an auto text of the “make good choices” gif to send every hour until they get back

I reframe this as "Make choices you'll be proud of when you're 35."

My personal take - which I recently explained to my 18 year old - is "make choices you could, if pushed, justify to your parents"

Don’t Pass and Don’t Come with max odds have the lowest house edge in the casino!

😂

Give them a series of instructional "what not to do" videos, but it's really just The Hangover movies.

"Tip the dealers Theres walgreens/CVS on the strip Call if you need bail posted"

should have had them watch a few episodes of 'jail - Las Vegas' b/4 leaving.

I applaud your ability to update your priors with the passing years.

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