| One of the most important things our society | | | | answer better than you can. |
| needs today is helping kids stay away from drugs. | | | | Parents need to read about stories of teens that |
| The best way for parents, counselors and | | | | were into drugs and have since cleaned up. Telling |
| teachers as well as friends and other family | | | | stories of the effects of drug use are going to |
| members to accomplish this is by relaying the | | | | have more of an effect on your teen's way of |
| honest information about drugs to the teens. | | | | thinking than telling them how bad drugs are for |
| Teens and drugs has become a huge problem in | | | | them. Everything today seems to be bad for you, |
| society and more and more parents are losing | | | | and it may seem to your teen that the only way |
| control of the situation. | | | | to find out is to give it a try. In order to address |
| If you talk openly and freely with your kids about | | | | their way of thinking, you can tell them real |
| drugs and answer questions honestly about things | | | | stories about other people who have tried drugs. |
| they want to know, you will have a better chance | | | | A true story will go farther than a lecture on how |
| of keeping them from trying drugs. The one thing | | | | bad drugs are for you. |
| you do not want to do is lecture. Lectures are for | | | | Never put your teen on the spot - if you think |
| the classroom where kids are made to listen and | | | | they may need the talk, you should bring it up in |
| learn in order to gain an education. If you start | | | | a discussion by leading into it. Do not sit them |
| your talks with a lecture, you are going to lose | | | | down and say, "Are you doing drugs?" This only |
| their attention and they will have even more | | | | pushes them away and makes them defensive |
| questions that the drug dealer can probably | | | | and they feel as if you do not trust them. |