Jessica Lahey
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first heard Dec 2017
last heard Apr 2021
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And if you it with each year that goes by
that risk goes down and down and down into the point where we're near down nearly like ten percent if we can get them up into their, you know, up to the point where they're at legal age.
And the nice thing about that is that
There are so many things we can do along the way.
And, you know, as someone who's been in recovery for a long time, you know, the serenity prayer is part of sort of the way I think, which is, you know, give me the strength to change the things, to know the things I cannot change and change the whatever, change the things I can.
There's a lot I can't control about my kid, but research is really clear that even once our kids are in college, we are still an influence on the way they think.
And not just because of our words, but mostly because of the way we've modeled behavior for them.
And, you know, for my kids, my students, my kids in the rehab, um, many of them were going home to a home where substance use was normal.
And so I d it's so it was so hard for me to send them home because
You know, I don't know what chance they have if substance abuse is normalized in their household.
But along those same lines, if and I'm not saying that parents can't drink, you know, or use drugs and that sort of stuff, because for adults, especially around, for example, marijuana use.
You know, there's a ton of risks to kids, especially around the hippocampus and short term memory.
that just sort of go away.
There isn't as much risk to adults as there is for kids.
And um it's just a matter of waiting until the the risk level goes down.
And and that honestly is the conversation I keep having with my seventeen year old, which is
It is so hard for you.
You know those times when you come into the kitchen and you stand there in front of the refrigerator and you say, Wait a second, why am I in this room?
What did I come in here for?
That's all short term memory, hippocampus, working memory stuff and that's
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