How to Prevent kids from taking alcohol or drugs.

The police knock on the door of one house, the owner open the door and ask the police "what can I do for you" the police said, "we have your son in the headquarters, we caught him using a prohibited drugs."

Sometime this is saddest news for some of our parents for their children, not only in drugs but in other cases that our child gets involving with.

Our children make their own choice, whatever we do our children are expose in any vice like drugs, liquor and other bad things surrounding us, we cannot prevent them from taking alcohol or drug if they want to do so, we cannot be with them every minute 24/7 to watch their activities. But we can take a step to strengthen them to resist the pressure of the society that confronts them every day, it‘s like a bad weather we can’t do it to go away, but we can take preventive measure for our child to become a victim,

Now a day, the use of prohibited drugs and alcohol abuse are wide spread and indeed bad. The reality is by the time they finish high school, almost all graduate have already tried prohibited drugs and alcohol, and sometime the other had been continued with it and become abusive.

Why kids experiment with drugs and alcohol? when I was in high school one of my classmate ask me to take marijuana but I refuse because I know that is bad but the other out of curiosity they take it. This is one reason.

Alcohol it associated with glamor, love, athletic prowess and fun where some student like it, they want fun and felling like an outcast going to the party and having a friend beg them to try drugs and alcohol.

There are six factors of taking drugs and alcohol continuously. 

• Biological disposition, 
• peer pressure, 
• parental attitudes, 
• life crises, 
• depression, and 
• parenting style.

Because of this factors all kids become drug and alcohol user because they are in pain, so they self medicated with drug and alcohol, drugs are quick and available, I don’t know what is the feeling if you are under drugs but some say they feel good, they forgot their problem for awhile the drugs resolved their pain that’s why they continued to use it.

Kids believe that they should be able to do what adult do and the use of drugs or alcohols are merely an age restriction having nothing to do with right and wrong.

We parent should do to teach our kids to take not drugs and alcohol, we must know what this kids problems.

 Let me share some tip on how to prevent the kids from drugs and alcohol.

• Set the example of abstinence, sometime we parents are their example in taking alcohol because they saw us, the think it also good for their young body. 
• educate your child about the danger of alcohol and drug use, like my father who is drunkard he always told me not to drink alcohol because it’s bad for the health and also he always telling me not to take drugs, in my high school there is a group of people go to our school to teach about drugs so I know the effect of it. 
• Help prevent drugs and alcohol use by giving short term reward for not using them and short term restriction for failing to meet the parental standard. 
• Identify problem early know the signs of drug use. when you notice that they use prohibited drug don’t hesitate to call the proper authority for treatment, some parent are afraid that our child will go to rehab but if you really love them you will let them to heal, be supportive of follow up treatment and forgive your kids for what they have done they are just a victim, show that even they wrong against you, we parents still love them and prevent them from going back in that bad things again.

Take care of our child they are our future, a hope of the nation, from them, a new leader will arise, if we make them a good follower, they can be a good leader.