Pubdate: Thu, 29 Dec 2005
Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB)
Copyright: 2005 Winnipeg Free Press
Contact:  http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/502
Author: Steve Oetting
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/testing.htm (Drug Test)

SPEND TIME WITH YOUR KIDS

Thank you for bringing our holiday joy back to bleak reality. Your 
front-page article City labs will test your kids for drugs (Free 
Press, Dec. 26) more than did the job.

You want to know if your kids do drugs? Here's an idea: try spending 
some time with them. Participate in their lives, join them in their 
extra-curricular activities, or volunteer with them at any one of 
dozens of city charities and teach them the real joy that comes from 
helping those less fortunate.

The thought of parents sharing so little contact, trust and love with 
their child that they would actually submit them to drug testing is 
just plain horrifying.

I have just one question: Is there a lab where kids can take their 
parents to have them tested for love?

STEVE OETTING

Winnipeg
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MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman