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My eleven year old daughter is a very competitive swimmer. She really likes Michael Phelps.
She’s trying to emulate his swimming career and really looks up to him.
Now he’s busted smoking dope. She’s starting to ask questions and we know she’s keeping an eye on his situation.
I told her he made a mistake because he’s too young to handle fame. However, she doesn’t really buy that. I just hope she doesn’t start to make some kind of connection that says since he’s doing dope, it would be OK for her to do so.
She knows we won’t accept that outcome. However, the challenge to keep her away from the stuff that could ruin her has become more difficult.
We hope she understands his doing something stupid does not make it acceptable.
It’s still stupid even if Michael Phelps does it.

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