Gary,s advice is good,the problem is that if a lot of parents act irresponsible their kids go to school with their set of irresponsible ways, which will rub off onto your kids,so if you let your kids hang around with these kids after school,your children will go the same way.If you don,t control them ,they will try to control you.
When one of my kids got into minor trouble with the police i went to the police station with my children and asked if i could let them see what a prison cell was like,and i explained that if you do anything wrong this is where you will be placed with other BAD people,it seems to have worked.Mike