Hanif Kureishi talks of cocaine nights with his kids. He makes the whole issue sound simple. I can’t believe it is, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
Hanif Kureishi talks of cocaine nights with his kids. He makes the whole issue sound simple. I can’t believe it isay nothing, she’s going to use it,” my 13-year-old daughter said to my 15-year-old son, like a Miranda warning. It was the week after the novelisthad tweeted: “I’ve had some great cocaine nights with my children, and I know friends who take MDMA with their kids, though this isn’t something I would do, out of the fear of talking too much.
There are some areas of parenting that pit one sacred rule against another, and render it impossible to obey both: drug-taking is one.
Taking drugs with your kids is the same tension between openness and protectiveness, writ larger, with a second question bolted on: what’s the drug? Obviously, we’re assuming by now that they’re adults – I mean, it’s all illegal anyway, but taking drugs with children shoots way past legality into abuse. If the aphorism is, “First they idolise you, then they see through you, then they forgive you,” now that they’re adults, with luck, they’re well into forgiveness.
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