As a child approaches his (or her) teens, he becomes more mobile. There are more sleepovers, more parties, more freedom to leave the home and hang out with friends. The more freedom and time away from home, the more opportunities there are to discover alcohol and drugs.
It’s not even a question of if a child will encounter drug and alcohol use. It’s when. In addition to every other responsibility a parent faces in raising a family, here’s another one: keep all one’s children drug-free until adulthood.
But it can be hard to find a good authority to provide effective guidance on dealing with this part of raising kids. Which is why Narconon reaches out to parents with all kinds of helpful information. We’ve been educating kids for nearly fifty years on the dangers of drugs – and our drug prevention curriculum has been proven to successfully reduce drug abuse numbers. If you’d like to see the study on our program you can find it here: http://www.substanceabusepolicy.com/content/3/1/8
A Wealth of Resources
Over the years, we have created a wealth of resources to help parents effectively educate their children on both drugs and alcohol. We have guides for talking to children and thorough reports on all the new drugs on the market so parents can speak with authority. If a parent does not have better and more complete information than a child will hear from her friends, the parent’s data may be discounted. So we educate you so you can turn to your children and let them know the real facts.
You’ll learn about the physical and mental harms that are possible, and the chances of addiction or overdose. Listed are the many slang terms for drugs or combinations of drugs so if you hear the slang, you’ll know what’s being talked about.
And we’ll help you understand your best courses of action if you find yourself faced with drug or alcohol use or even addiction.
The Parent Center
Many of our very best materials are collected onto one page of our website, the Narconon Parent Center. Included here is the Talking to Kids About Drugs booklet and our very popular 10 Things Your Friends May Not Know About Drugs booklet, which can be downloaded and shared with others.
At the top, the Family Help Guide is there when you’re not even sure if drugs are being used or which ones. Then if you realize there is an addiction, the Family Help Guide will show you the next steps to take.
A fast and very direct guide to surviving the addiction of a loved one is contained in 14 Rules You Must Never Break When Dealing with Addiction. When these rules are broken, everyone suffers. But now you don’t have to.
There’s two booklets to help you learn the fast facts you might not know about marijuana or prescription drugs. At the bottom of the page there’s an excellent guide with just about everything you need to know to start talking to your kids. You can read it online for free.
Please take your time and get familiar with all our resources. They are there for you. They’re there to help you raise drug-free kids or help someone when they are in desperate need due to their addiction.
