Route to Encouraging Your Child to Avoid Drugs

Parenting a preteen child is an enormous work to do, but you don’t
need to shy away from it if you want your effort of becoming a successful
parent to be commended.

Part of the many challenges you are going to face as a parent of a preteen
child is the one relating to drugs.

Drug use has come to stay and most preteen are now fully involved in it.
If you don’t want your own preteen to be involved, then you need to take
some cogent steps right away.

The following are the routes to encouraging your preteen child to avoid drugs
starts:

1. You have to start your effort with straightforward discussion about drugs.
Spend time with your preteen child and explain the danger drugs pose especially
in his or her growing body.

2. You must emphasize in your discussion the immediate effects of alcohol,
tobacco (through cigarette smoking) and drugs on different parts of
the body. For instance tell your preteen that tobacco makes one feel lightheaded
while alcohol weakens one’s coordination.

3. Long-term consequences of drug use which include drug addiction should be
pointed out to your preteen child.

4. Let your preteen know that alcohol or drugs does not hurt the user allow;
it also affects  members of their family and friends.

5. Teach your preteen how to respond to a friend’s offer of drugs or alcohol
and the kind of excuse he or she could give in order to turn down the offer.

6. Give your preteen the chance to bring his or her friends home without any
interference from you that way you will get to know the parents of your child’s
friends and the friend’s interests.

7. Finally, it is imperative that you should not try to do this all alone. You should
work with other parents in order to reinforce one another’s efforts to keep
your children drug free.

Enjoy your parenting efforts.

Sikaz.