Beautiful Boy: A Father's Addiction

Waking up around nine in the morning, Mike tosses out of his queen sized bed that has covers that have blue diamond pattern covers. The first thing he does when he gets out of bed is he heads towards the shower. After his shower, he begins to smell something being made in the kitchen. So he puts on his lazy clothes and heads to the kitchen. When he gets to the kitchen, his parents are making breakfast for his siblings, who are all biological, and him. He notices that his parents are making chocolate chip pancakes, his siblings and his favorite breakfast. They also have the best drink on the side which is chocolate milk. Their parents know this is their favorite breakfast so they make it at least twice a week. While they are eating their breakfast

Now if everyone were to look at everyone’s idea of a perfect life, they would all have the same basic principles. In the book, Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, by David Sheff, Sheff often refers to his life as not being normal. However, I know that Sheff does have a normal life apart from his son Nic. Nic is the major reason why the author does not have a normal life that he so desperately

He was married to a gal named Vicki. While they were married, they had a son together and named him Nic. When they were raising Nic together, they were doing perfectly fine. Nic was doing well in every subject at private school and was successful in many other aspects of life. However, when he was young, his parents did end up getting a divorce which changed Nic’s life drastically. After the divorce, Vicki ended up moving far away from where her ex-husband lives. They ended up living around five hundred miles away from each other. Since they lived so far away from each other, Nic had to begin riding on a plane all by himself at the age of only five. At first after the divorce, Nic seemed to be himself. He was getting great grades and participating in school activities. But when he hit around middle school, his father found a bag of marijuana in Nic’s backpack while he had some of his friends over. Nic’s father, Sheff, waited till Nic was by himself to confront him about this. Sheff did not show much concern when he was talking to Nic. After the whole conversation about the weed, Nic promised his father that he would stop smoking marijuana. Nic had completely lied because he actually did not stop smoking weed. Instead he just hid his not so big addiction from his father. When he did this, it actually made his addiction grow. “’You smoked tons of pot’, Nic says. ‘You’re a great one to talk’” (Sheff, 89). It did not help when Nic knew