This document discusses the important role that parents play in preventing substance abuse. It provides tips for parents on how to get involved in their children's lives, communicate effectively, build their self-esteem, set rules, and be good role models. It also outlines steps to take if a child is using drugs or alcohol, including getting support, staying calm during confrontation, and following treatment recommendations. The overall message is that parents need to spend quality time with their children, make them feel loved and valued, and help them develop life skills to build resiliency against substance abuse.
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1. ROLE OF PARENTS ON SUBSTANCE
ABUSE PREVENTION &
INTERVENTION
Dangerous Drug Board
3. PARENTS - THEIR PROTECTIVE ROLE
GET INVOLVEDGET INVOLVED
When your child gets homeWhen your child gets home
after school try to be thereafter school try to be there
Spend time with the childSpend time with the child
Create a welcomeCreate a welcome
environment at homeenvironment at home
Eat together as often as you canEat together as often as you can
Get to know aboutGet to know about
their interests andtheir interests and
activitiesactivities
4. LEARN TO COMMUNICATE
Watch out for non - verbal cues
Good communication is more than
just words
Listen to the child,
giving your full attention
Look at the child
when he is talking
6. APPRECIATE AND ENCOURAGE
(contd..)
Help the child understand that he has your guidance and also the
freedom to make decisions
Help the child set realistic goals and work towards them
7. PREVENTIVE ROLEEncourage healthy pursuits like sports / music
Be familiar with your child’s activitiesBe familiar with your child’s activities
SET ACCEPTABLE RULESSET ACCEPTABLE RULES
Lay down acceptable principlesLay down acceptable principles
State expectations clearlyState expectations clearly
Make rules in consultation with the childMake rules in consultation with the child
Enforce the rules setEnforce the rules set
8. ROLE OF PARENTS ONROLE OF PARENTS ON
DRUG/SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTIONDRUG/SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION
1. Parents Are Children’s
First Role Models
2. Building Resiliency
Examine your own behaviour
Emulate the values you want your child to
follow
9. 3. Creating Balance Through Making Choices.
Have Children pay
attention to how they
feel about their choices.
4. Exploring Options and Outcomes
Have a support system that extends beyond
immediate family to other trustworthy adults
who will help, particularly in crisis or
emergencies.
10. • Encourage children’s self-worth and self
identity by loving and praising them just as
they are.
Truly know your children, what
they are about as people.
11.
Know your child’s friends and theirfriends’
parents. Be willing to talk to other parents
about concerns.
Have a family connectedness to some
form of a higher power.
12. Have a family awareness sessions and talk
on
issues that affect family balance and
harmony.
Parents must be willing
to admit that they don’t
know all the answers and
work with children to
find solutions.
13. PARENTAL INTERVENTION
What to do When a Child is Using alcohol or other Drugs
Reasons Why Parents Do not Notice Drug Use
& Get Help For their Children
1. Denial
2. Enabling
3. Shame and Blame
14. Five Steps to Help a Using Child
1. Parents need to get
support for themselves.
2. When talking to a using
child or confronting them about
use, stay calm and don’t argue.
15. 3. With very difficult children, an
intervention facilitated by a professional
may need to take place. A counselor may
help with breaking the child’s financial
resistance to therapy or support.
16. 4. Get the assessment and follow through
with the referral recommendations for
the child & the family.
5. Keep in mind that getting help for the child is expressing
love and taking care of the child’s well-being.
17. One young academically excellent person went to apply for
a managerial position in a big company.
He passed the first interview, the director did the last
interview, made the last decision.
The director discovered from the CV that the youth's
academic achievements were excellent all the way, from the
secondary school until the postgraduate research, never
had a year when he did not score.
The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarships in
school?" the youth answered "none".
The director asked, " Was it your father who paid for your
school fees?" The youth answered, "My father passed away
when I was one year old, it was my mother who paid for my
school fees.
18. The director asked, " Have you ever helped your mother wash
the clothes before?" The youth answered, "Never, my mother
always wanted me to study and read more books.
Furthermore, my mother can wash clothes faster than me.
The director said, "I have a request. When you go back today,
go and clean your mother's hands, and then see me tomorrow
morning.
The youth felt that his chance of landing the job was high.
When he went back, he happily requested his mother to let
him clean her hands. His mother felt strange, happy but with
mixed feelings, she showed her hands to the kid.
The director asked, " Where did your mother work?" The youth
answered, "My mother worked as clothes cleaner. The director
requested the youth to show his hands. The youth showed a
pair of hands that were smooth and perfect.
19. This was the first time the youth realized that it was this pair of
hands that washed the clothes everyday to enable him to pay
the school fee. The bruises in the mother's hands were the price
that the mother had to pay for his graduation, academic
excellence and his future.
After finishing the cleaning of his mother hands, the youth
quietly washed all the remaining clothes for his mother.
That night, mother and son talked for a very long time.
The youth cleaned his mother's hands slowly. His tear fell as he
did that. It was the first time he noticed that his mother's hands
were so wrinkled, and there were so many bruises in her hands.
Some bruises were so painful that his mother shivered when
they were cleaned with water.
Next morning, the youth went to the director's office.
The Director noticed the tears in the youth's eyes, asked: " Can
you tell me what have you done and learned yesterday in your
house?"
20. The youth said, Number 1, I know now what is appreciation.
Without my mother, there would not the successful me today.
Number 2, by working together and helping my mother, only I
now realize how difficult and tough it is to get something done.
Number 3, I have come to appreciate the importance and value
of family relationship.
The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's hand, and also
finished cleaning all the remaining clothes'
The Director asked, " please tell me your feelings."
The director said, " This is what I am looking for to be my
manager. I want to recruit a person who can appreciate the help
of others, a person who knows the sufferings of others to get
things done, and a person who would not put money as his only
goal in life. You are hired.”
21. A child, who has been protected and habitually given
whatever he wanted, would develop "entitlement mentality"
and would always put himself first. He would be ignorant of
his parent's efforts. When he starts work, he assumes that
every person must listen to him, and when he becomes a
manager, he would never know the sufferings of his
employees and would always blame others. For this kind of
people, who may be good academically, may be successful
for a while, but eventually would not feel sense of
achievement. He will grumble and be full of hatred and fight
for more. If we are this kind of protective parents, are we
really showing love or are we destroying the kid instead?*
Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received
the respect of his subordinates. Every employee worked
diligently and as a team. The company's performance
improved tremendously.
22. You can let your kid live in a big house, eat a good
meal, learn piano, watch a big screen TV. But when
you are cutting grass, please let them experience it.
After a meal, let them wash their plates and bowls
together with their brothers and sisters. It is not
because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it
is because you want to love them in a right way. You
want them to understand, no matter how rich their
parents are, one day their hair will grow gray, same
as the mother of that young person. The most
important thing is your kid learns how to appreciate
the effort and experience the difficulty and learns the
ability to work with others to get things done.
23. As a person we have a multiple roles
to perform, but being a parent is the
greatest and for a lifetime…………
24. Listen
When I ask you to listen to me and
You start giving advice
You have not done what I asked
When I ask you to listen to me and
You begin to tell me why,
I shouldn’t feel that way,
You are trampling on my feelings.
When I ask you to listen to me and
You feel you have to do something
To solve my problems, you have failed me,
strange as that may seem.
25. Perhaps that’s why prayer works for some people.
Because GOD is mute and HE doesn’t
offer or try to fix things.
HE just listens and hear me.
And if you want to talk, wait a few minutes for your
turn , and I promise
I”ll listen to you.
26. A PARENT’S PRAYER
Thank you for my children, Lord; I know
they are a gift from You. Daily I need your
strength and wisdom to train them the way
they should go . Give me patience and a
joyful heart; let me be an example of Your
love and forgiveness.
Thank You , Father for the honor of being
a parent .
Amen
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27. •The only thing we can bring to
eternal life are those we have
given away