Ill argue the opposite. Kids can be extremely perceptive. They might not know exactly whats going on, but they can definitely tell something is catastrophically wrong when their mom is even more pilled out and their dad is all at once hyped up and nodding off, and suddenly there are these people you dont know living with mom and dad in their room. They know enough to know that this shit isnt normal to how they were living just a year ago. Drug abuse, especially to the level they mustve gotten too, is very obvious. Its a noticeable change because it wasnt even a gradual change. Theyll know that 2 years ago mommy and daddy were kissing them goodnight and reading them stories, and now theyre passing out in their beds stinking like shit. Theyll know their comfy life where they go to school with their close childhood friends is collapsing because their parents are passed out and cant be roused from sleep, and theyll know that they were hungry and dirty in a manner they never have been before, because mommy and daddy arent feeding or bathing them anymore.
Excuse the power leveling. I hope nick aspirates on his own vomit and Mrs. Rekieta slips into a pill induced coma.