{"id":92,"date":"2017-02-03T00:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/truth-or-dare\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T00:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:38","slug":"truth-or-dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/ask-the-old-hippie\/truth-or-dare\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth or DARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOld Hippy,<br \/>\nI have 3 girls the oldest is 8. I have been smoking without fear for many years. Now, since they have introduced the Dare program where I live, I am paranoid of what they are teaching my kids. I&#8217;ve heard horror stories of them encouraging children to rat out their parents. I have always been careful, I don&#8217;t leave stash or pipes laying about. But the other night when they had gone to bed I smoked some then the next morning the oldest asked what that smell was-I lied and said it was my sage incense. Do I have reason to worry?<\/p>\n<p>I agree with the programs teaching against white drugs and I certainly don&#8217;t advocate smoking until they are much older. But encouraging\u00a0 kids to rat out their parents seems like the book 1984 and it pisses me off. I consider myself to be a responsible loving parent and I get enough crap in the south for being a pagan parent- now this. What does Dare teach?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks and peace.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: purple;\">I suggest you look into the program more (they have a website, I believe &#8211;<br \/>\nfull of propaganda of course). I&#8217;ve read studies that show that kids who<br \/>\nare in the DARE program are MORE likely to get involved with drugs (the<br \/>\nprogram DOES talk about many drugs, some of which most kids have never heard<br \/>\nabout! doesn&#8217;t it?). <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The important thing is that if you have any doubts about it, YOUR KIDS DON&#8217;T<br \/>\nHAVE GO! You can let the school know that you DON&#8217;T want your kids to<br \/>\nparticipate in the program. You could also organize other parents who feel<br \/>\nthe same way. Of course then you and your kids are singled out, which can<br \/>\nbe a problem in some communities, but at least YOU&#8217;RE taking a stand against<br \/>\nthe brainwashing of your children (of course, that&#8217;s what school is for,<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t it?).<\/p>\n<p>I know many parents who for various reasons, including this, have opted to<br \/>\nput their kids in private schools, or do home schooling. Do you want your<br \/>\nchildren to become programmed consumerist zombies? Do you care what kind of<br \/>\nideas your children are being fed by the system (and their programmed<br \/>\npeers)? If so then you have options you should consider. There are<br \/>\nalternatives! Check them out!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you can guide your children with truth instead of lies.<\/p>\n<p>-The Old Hippy<\/p>\n<p>Posted by: skip<br \/>\nViews: 26274<br \/>\nTopic:10\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Hippy, I have 3 girls the oldest is 8. I have been smoking without fear for many years. Now, since they have introduced the Dare program where I live, I am paranoid of what they are teaching my kids. I&#8217;ve heard horror stories of them encouraging children to rat out their parents. I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[41,105],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-the-old-hippie","category-health","tag-drugs","tag-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}