<p>I’d certainly like to think that setting an example with these kids will work, but I’ve learned over the years, that it doesn’t.</p>
<p>We (like most people here) have had kids from our daughters’ high school killed in car wrecks where alcohol and drugs have been involved. You’d think the whole class was killed by the remaining students’ reactions and promises to honor their lost ones by abstaining for the rest of their lives, but within a couple of months, most of them are drowning their sorrows and griefs in alcohol and drugs, again.</p>