Given the influence of movies, television, advertising, music, and peers, sometimes parents feel they have no chance of influencing their child's drug use choices. However, this is not the case. The important values that you instill in children from an early age and into adulthood will become a deterrent to drug use in the future.
Instructions
Step 1
If a child is already addicted to drugs, it is very difficult to save him, and it is not always possible. To get out of this vicious circle, you need a super-strong desire and will. Even if a drug addict can get rid of his addiction for some time, he can later return to it, and then everything will start all over again.
Step 2
When a person gets used to drugs, it is difficult for him to find a substitute for them in everyday life. Without them, the environment for him seems to lose its bright colors. But most importantly, he has nothing to fill the void in his soul with. That is why often drug addicts are not helped by expensive clinics, talk, or persuasion. That is why only prevention can save a child from drugs.
Step 3
It is important to remember that children are brought up not with words, but by their personal example. Therefore, under no circumstances should you use drugs yourself, especially with a child. Also, don't think that by avoiding talking to your children about drug addiction, you can save them from this trouble. It is better not to hide from a possible problem, but to prevent it. Therefore, while watching television programs showing a plot on this topic, do not miss a moment and discuss the harm of drugs with your child. Let him clearly see in the program what the life of a person who has set foot on this slippery path can turn into.
Step 4
However, when discussing the problems of drug addiction with a child, one should not go to the other extreme: impose one's opinion on him, read lectures, condemn and pathetically denounce people with this addiction. Otherwise, you will achieve the opposite effect - the child may think that the forbidden fruit is sweet.
Step 5
Wishing to protect a baby or teenager from drug addiction, parents should make sure that he has some hobbies and hobbies. After school, children often kill time by watching TV, playing computer games, not being interested in anything else. It is this lifestyle that can subsequently lead to the use of alcohol or drugs. Therefore, it is important that parents encourage the creative endeavors of children, help them develop their abilities. It is good if there is an opportunity to send your child to any club or sports section that he likes.
Step 6
When pursuing a career or solving personal problems, parents often devote little time to their child. In this case, he is left to himself all day long and may well contact bad company on the street. This situation is not uncommon even for children from well-to-do families. As a result, a child or teenager can become addicted not only to smoking, but also to alcohol and drugs.
Step 7
To save your child from drugs, you need to become his friend - the closest person with whom he can share his problems, experiences, joys and sorrows. Try to be a democratic parent, not an authoritarian dictator who controls, orders and prohibits, because in this case the grown up child may start acting contrary to you, out of a spirit of contradiction.
Step 8
It is not so much the authority of the parents who can save the child from drug addiction, but their support and love. Only a happy child, surrounded by care, tenderness, unconditional acceptance of parents, will rush home and not disappear for long hours in the yard. Only such a child will think what pain he will bring to loved ones, taking the path of self-destruction.
Step 9
Children, in whom their relatives believe, will believe in themselves, grow up as purposeful, cheerful, successful people who will not need an artificial catalyst for euphoria. Show condescension, attentiveness, participation, and concern. Sincerely support, encourage, inspire, try to understand the child. Be happy and raise your children happy.
