One last thought: healthy friendships with other "good kids" are invaluable.

My friends and I were total goody-two-shoes. In high school, our idea of rebellion was to go to a friend's house and have hot chocolate instead of racing back to school after we put on a drama presentation at the middle school. We did go back. We just dawdled for 30 minutes so we didn't go into our 5th period class in the middle of it. No drugs, no drinking, no sex, no violence...just hot chocolate and a little minor hooky.

Even so, I was worried we'd be in trouble, so it was about as rebellious as I ever got.

If I were with different kids, my form of rebellion might have looked significantly different!


Kriston