Posted on 05/26/2013 12:00:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has revealed some interesting findings on the amount of influence parents think they have over their teens when it comes to preventing them from using illicit drugs, tobacco or alcohol.
In fact, the new report reveals that parents are among the most effective factors in preventing children’s substance use. Unfortunately, there are a lot of parents who don’t think this is the case.
The reports shows that 22.3 percent of parents believe what they talk about with their teens has very little impact on whether or not their child takes drugs, smokes tobacco products or drinks alcohol.
Could this belief be preventing parents from talking to their kids about the dangers of using illicit drugs? …
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencerecorder.com ...
I would say that parents can stop, but that parents can help stop.
Some kids are less prone to listening to parents.
Absolute honesty about the positive and negative effects of drugs and alcohol does help.
Parents need to stop trusting their kids and start watching them.
The problem is that they don’t pay enough attention to their kids.
Watch them you can tell if they start using drugs.
Leave a couple of bucks lying around , see if it disappears.
Be leery of their stories of where they are going, check up on them once in a while. A kid that knows they are being watched will think twice before they start using.
I once told my son that if he started using he and I would be making a personal visit to whoever sold him the drugs.
We wouldn’t be going for a party.
It also helps to have parents that are around, rather than working their tails off to keep up with the Jones’ (or, here in Texas now, keep up with the Gonzolaz’s).
It DEFINITELY HELPS to not stick the kid in public school, where he’ll get chummy with a lot of bad people, who happen to live very close by. That is asking for it. At the least, send him to a school that’s 5 (if not 10) miles away, so that seeing friends is harder to do, and thus you have more control over it.
I just showed my son a few addicts mugshots and told him how drugs would alter his life and lead it down a path of crime with no future and gave him specific examples of people I,ve known personally and ones tha I’ve investigated in the past. He’s now in his 20’s and told me he hasn’t even smoked marijuana and I tend to believe him because he’s been promoted 4 times at his job he’s held for 4 years and no DWIs or drug charges and only a few traffic tickets. I’m very proud of him. He hates 0 too by the way...: )
Well, you can’t stuff your kids in daycare while you do your thing, then send them of to school and shuttle them to extra curricular activities so they can be with other kids 14 hours a day and expect them to listen to you when they become teens.
Raising sweet little newborns into responsible, moral adults takes a lot of time and sacrifice.
I'm not sure that most private schools are that much better, given that excess cash and the trendiness of "ADHD" prescriptions create drug problems.
Anyone who has access to a good neighborhood school where the students, parents, and staff are a known quantity that gets good results and has a nice atmosphere is probably the best alternative. Charter schools?....as the proliferate, many if not most are having the same problems as the public schools.
Without a good neighborhood school, home schooling is probably the only option, hopefully with opportunities for parents and students to have time together, and with access to public school extracurricular programs if that's the parents' choice. In OH (I don't know if it's nation-wide), there are some okay online public schools. They're a pretty good alternative, but it's still best to have a parent home to supervise. Putting a few kids together with one parent paid a little to supervise them while they do their home school is another possibility.
The urban public schools seem to be getting worse and with more problems at an ever earlier age. JMHO. I suspect it's because many parents up to the age of 30 or so don't have a clue about responsibility or what to expect of kids and schools.
A lot of parents could start by not being stoners themselves, but that is apparently asking too much of some subhumans.
Smart Kid.
Once they’re adults, it’s up to them to practice moderation in their consumption of so many things including how much time they spend on the phone, time in the tanning booth, fast food, credit card balances, casual sex and driving habits among other things.
Here in L.A. most of the parents are stoners too so it’s ok in the kids mind.
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