New Kid Trend: Smoking Smarties Candy

I am a parent. I believe a parent's job is to educate their kids and get them safely through their youth into adulthood. I was also a kid, and I believe it is important for a kid to be a kid and not have everything in their life have to be a defining moment of responsibility. My son used to crush smarties in my blender and snort them up his nose proclaiming them to be "the cocaine of the future." Not once was I worried that he would become a junkie and he never did. No more than drinking soda through my nose, riding a bike with no helmet, sitting to close to the tv, or being dumb enough to try touching my tongue to the flagpole ever left me with a decreased life expectancy. It was called being a kid. George Carlin once said kids don't start smoking because a Camel in dark sunglasses told them to. If I hadn't seen this clip myself I would not have believed that anyone would be naive enough to think that pretending to smoke a smartie would lead a kid to smoke a cigarette any more than watching their breath on a cold morning, playing with dry ice, or playing with the leftover stick from a lollypop would. If it isn't going to kill them, then let your kids experience being a kid even if it means having to pick a sugar loaded booger from their nose.