Remember when your grade school teacher told you there was no such thing as a stupid question? Turns out there's no such thing as a stupid lecture for your kids either. No really, no matter how basic and common sense a topic is, you might want to talk to your kids about it. You don't want your kid being one of the 20 percent of teens who actually think drugs and alcohol make them better drivers, do you?

I read that little bomb dropped by SADD this week, and my head just started aching. Haven't we had SADD and MADD and all that jazz around for long enough now that kids should know better?

I've heard of divorcing parents pulling some pretty crazy custody battle stunts, but none so crazy as what one dad in recently (allegedly) did to mess with his ex-wife. Apparently, both 37-year-old Chad M. Holm and his ex "used methamphetamine together" for years while they were married. After they broke up, the couple's 5 and 7-year-old children were temporarily placed with Holm while their mother underwent voluntary drug treatment (whether Holm stopped using drugs or not is unclear). Either way, the mom had reportedly been clean for a year in September, so she was pretty shocked when she failed a drug test ... until she remembered the "unappetizing cookies" her kids baked several days earlier at their father's house.

That fabled mama bear instinct is real. You know the one: Mess with a mother's child and prepare to have your ass handed to you. In the most recent example, a Missouri woman was found guilty of beating her son's drug dealer with a baseball bat. Crazy, right?

Politicians are proposing a new way to keep smokes out of the hands of kids. A measure in New York City would make the sale of cigarettes to anyone under 21 a crime -- the toughest law in any major American city. Considering no parent wants to see their kid puffing away, this should be a no-brainer, right?

Wrong! The proposed tobacco law sounds great on the surface, but there's one major problem parents have to face.  

I consider myself pretty easygoing as a mom, but here's where I have to draw the line: souvenir shot glasses for kids at the prom. And by shot glasses, I mean exactly what you're thinking: the small cup you use to throw back a jigger of straight liquor.

In a world where we have to throw annual mock drunk driving accidents every year just to convince kids not to get blitzed on prom night, I shouldn't have to tell you this is a bad idea. But considering kids just came home from the big dance at an Idaho high school toting their brand new shot glasses, it seems I do.

Kids and drugs. They're just about every mom's worry. But just how far are you willing to go to keep the two apart? Would you let your 13-year-old be drug tested just so she can take part in extracurricular activities at her junior high?

That's the question parents in Marion, Ohio are facing right now. Pleasant Middle School has made drug testing mandatory for any student involved in extracurricular activities.

EVERY extracurricular activity.

Well, this isn't something I'd ever thought I'd write, but ... I'm with Tanning Mom! The New Jersey resident said that she's all for the state's new law banning tanning for kids under 17, and so am I. Sorry, tween Snooki wannabes!

I particularly love what Tanning Mom (aka Patricia Krentcil) said when TMZ asked her how the tanning community would respond to the ban:

When it comes to pushing boundaries, teens are the masters. It's as if anything that their parents wouldn't want them to do is automatically 20 times more attractive. With that said, it'll never cease to amaze me the crazy things that teens do because, well, everyone else is doing it.

We've laughed about some of the latest teen trends like milking, owling, and batting. Unfortunately, not all trends have funny potential, and as a parent, it's important to know what kinds of things your kid (or their friends) could be doing.

Check out our list of 10 dangerous teen trends, here: