Positive Ways the Parents Can
Help Their Children Stay Drug-Free
- Learn to express your love in ways your children can understand.
- Know more about drugs than your children and talk to them about these dangers early and often.
- Attend religious services regularly.
- Spend family time together (meals, play, family outing, etc.).
- Set clear rules with consequences for your children.
- Promote healthy activities as the norm in which drug use has no part because it is destructive to the mind, body, and society.
- Help your children find meaning and value in life.
- Be available, interested, and supportive to your children.
- Encourage personal and/or academic achievement.
- Help your children learn how to make better decisions.