brother in law smoking pot while watching his baby..OMG!?

Question

i am shaking right now i am so mad. i am a licensed social worker, i am 23 years old and have been in the working field for a year now. my husbands brother has a 13 month old baby and a fiance at home. my husbands brother (BILL) is 26. i am having an major internal struggle. i have known that bill has smoled pot everyday after work. that bothered me a lot, but i knew that babys mom was there and she wasnt smoking. . shes the one to tell me he smokes and i have seen it but my husband told him he cant do that when im there. so, come to find out Bills fiance told me she has starting smoking pot ever once in a while, to relax. well, bills fiance got a job where he watches baby more. and mom told me that he smokes pot ever /sun morning when he has baby by himnselfe all day! she said she doesnt mind it at all, and she also said that when her child is old enough to smoke she will let him! i a so pissed off. but what do i do? how does pot effect your parenting skills? i am so mad!!!

Answer 1

You're overreacting. Smoking pot isn't the mind frying drug the government would have you believe it is. Being high isn't like being drunk. You're neither out of control nor unaware. There's a bizarre effect to long term adult smoking you're probably not aware of, either. It's that when you're high, for some reason you become more aware, more alert and more cautious in any given situation, and no matter how much you smoke, in cases of emergency, it almost seems like your brain rejects the high and you become suddenly straight when you need to be.

I know I'd much prefer a "pothead" babysitter to one who sat around all weekend drinking beer. If this guy is a responsible adult when sober, he'll still be responsible when high. I won't vouch for when he drinks. Pot doesn't affect parenting skills. If they are good, they will remain so. Pot can enhance a parent's interaction with children. It's simply more fun to play that way! No responsible adult pot smoker is going to cause deliberate or accidental physical harm a child due to negligence, just because they are high.

Answer 2

i comprehend somebody who smoked pot ever day, various circumstances an afternoon. i did no longer comprehend it on the time yet I artwork in daycare and cared for her infant and he puked each and every of the time, his lips trembled alto(which might freak me out) and he particularly napped in the process the day as a youthful toddler, he's wonderful now, apart from his acid reflux ailment, he's amazingly fussy nonetheless in spite of the indisputable fact that, he's approximately 10 months now. My superb buddy is her sister and instructed me relating to the drug use after i began telling her his indicators. i comprehend that ladies people who're on public wellness care plans can get drug assessments and if the newborn is born addicted to something they'll sometimes take the newborn from the mum. The chick i grew to become into bearing on is a candy lady yet i think of she grew to become into very ignorant to the reality that it ought to have harm her infant.

Answer 3

Are you a mandated reporter and is this something you are required to report? If it is then you've got to decide if your entire career and the child's wellbeing together outweigh the family ruckus that will happen if it's found out that you're the one who reported this.

Answer 4

no your being the caring and conserned person you should be. sounds like this baby has some irresponsible parents. they should know better then that. people like that dont deserve kids.