Giving Your Kids The Tools To Be Drug Free

Giving Your Kids The Tools To Be Drug Free

As a parent you want your child to make wise decisions especially about health and their body.

Making sure they make the right choice when it comes to drugs is something you hope your child will do.

Most parents need to do more than hope, in a world that encourages children to use drugs for every ache and pain and a world where peer pressure is easy to succumb to.

Drug abuse and misuse is prevalent in our society today and our children are being exposed to drugs at school and on playgrounds at a younger age.

How do we as parents give our kids the tools they need to in order to be drug free?

The first tool you will need is the ability to talk with and be respected by your child. This starts when they are very young.

You need to build strong bonds of trust and affection so that when your child needs to confide in you about having been approached by the drug issue at school or from a friend they will feel confident and comfortable coming to you.

The second tool is that of education. Do not rely on your child's school to teach them how to say no to drugs or to educate them about the dangers of abusing drugs and how drugs can hurt their body.

Make sure you tell your child that it is OK to say no to someone offering him or her drugs. Let them know what drugs are, so that they know that tobacco products and alcohol are also drugs to be avoided.

Educate them about prescription drugs and that using a prescription that is for someone else can be harmful to you. Let your child know that drugs can cause a lifetime of health risks.

Explain to them that feeling "high" or "good" as a result of taking a pill, smoking or inhaling now is not worth a lifetime of suffering and pain waiting for them as a result of even one abuse or misuse of drugs.

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Explain to your child what an addiction is and how it can affect their life, ability to earn a living and have fun as an adult.

Explain that drugs can kill them, taking away any chance of a future to be happy in.

Brainstorm with your child different scenarios of how friends or strangers may offer drugs to them and rehearse how they can respond or make excuses to say no to drugs.

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Always know your child's friends and how to contact them. Know the friends parents. Know what kind of activities your child and friends are interested in and how they spend their spare time.

Know where your child is and what they are doing at all times. Make your child accountable to you. Let them know that you care about them and that you want to be involved in what they are doing.

Help your child to understand the difference between drug myths and the reality about drug abuse and drug misuse and the truth about what drugs can do to your body.

Let them know that just because something comes from a plant, such as marijuana, it does not mean that it is good for you.

Kids should be familiar with what drugs look like, so that they can recognize drugs when they are presented with them.

Give kids the power to make choices about what they should put into their bodies. Explain about how what we put into our bodies affects our bodies and how well we feel.

Drugs are not just there to make us feel good; some drugs can make us sick.

Praise your child for making good decisions about caring for their body. Encourage your child to learn about how to put good things into their body.