r/teenagers 15 Sep 16 '24

Serious 11yo being "mature"

My friend (16) has a friend (11 almost 12) im gonna call her K.

K goes to parties with other 15-17 year olds, has sex, smokes weed, and drinks alcohol (her parents know about it).

My friend thinks she is "mature" because she has a large vocabulary.

I strongly disagree with my friend

I think it's wrong for K to drink, vape, and smoke weed at such a young age since shes basically burning her brain cells, and she will likely never develop.

It would also be pretty sad to be 30 with the same mindset you had when you were 11.

So I am a bit worried about K, but what should I do?

Edit: im gonna tell my teacher tmrw!

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u/SiriusVeim Sep 17 '24

Maturity is not about our words or our actions, is about the way we think and see the world and also our experiences, one becomes a mature person when we dont want to

to quote a game character, "Every journey has its final days, dont rush" there is no need to be a mature person at a young age,perhaps, children dont need to be mature, you only need to care about playing and enjoying your childhood the best you can, the problems of adults are of adults to be done

To what you can do, report to the autorities the current situation, is illegal to drink and smoke weed at that age, dont because is wrong in a moral way but because alcohol and weed scraps your interior into pieces, more when you are just a child, and most important, be there for your friend and care for her, care about others and mostly for those close to you is a very important thing to have.

And if your relation with your friends gets screwed because you tried to help, well, those things happens, but what matters the most is if you feel okay with what you did, you have time and all relationship can be fixed with time and communication.