My 16 year old mentioned that a boy we know smoked pot, and then quickly clapped her hand over her mouth, because she didn't want to get him in trouble (and didn't want to admit to her mother that she knew that pot existed). I told her that it was OK, that I was sure at 16 she knew kids who drank and did drugs, that I had been to pot parties at her age. And she replied, "Yeah, but back then it was LEGAL." For some reason, the '70's seem to have taken on mythic proportions with her age group, as the era of sex, drugs and rock n roll.

As my husband says (with a roll of his eyes), Thank God she's pretty.