Parents Have the Most Influence When Preventing Substance Abuse
For those who are parents to kids entering into the teen years, you know how stressful peer pressure can be. Many adolescents end up getting advice from their peers – and some of it may not be the greatest advice.
In order to keep your children from venturing down a path of potential substance abuse that will ultimately lead them to a sober living Florida home, it is important to make sure that you are available to them for any help that they need. In fact, recent research reveals that parents can reduce the risk of their kids experimenting with drugs or alcohol by keeping a healthy and open relationship with them.
According to Thomas Schofield, assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State University, “Parents don’t even have to be ‘super parents.’ As long as they’re in the 71st percentile, or getting a C- in parenting, both of these dangerous pathways to drug abuse go away.”
For those parents who avoid discussing the realities of drug addiction with their kids, they run the risk of having to enter them into a halfway house in Florida. As Schofield continues to lament, “preadolescence and early adolescence is not a particularly risky time; it’s just the best time to get kids on board with collaborating, communicating with their parents and creating that relationship earlier.”
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