Drugs can be bad for your child
You hear commercials on the radio about how if you don’t watch your kids closely and talk to your kids and encourage them then you won’t notice what your child is doing behind your back. The adolescent’s stage is a hard stage to understand. By being an adolescent myself I understand how hard it is for my parents to understand me. We have our stages in life and we go through these stages every day. One day we might be very happy and outgoing, then the next day we could be gloomy and not want to talk to anybody at all. Not even your friends.
But what I am trying to get to, is that in our teens we will want to try new stuff and we also will do stupid stuff that we will regret when we get older. Like, smoking, drugs, and alcohol. A lot of kids will try these things, because they will want the feeling that it gives them. Many kids will be faced with a huge decision when one of their friends comes up and ask if they want to do drugs, or smoke a cigarette, etc. They either have the choice to try it or to not try it.
There is a lady, Ruth Wooden, president of the National Parenting Association in New York, who says that you can help your child through these hard times by asking your children hard life choices like, “My boss wants me to work this weekend and I really would rather not. How do I tell him no without getting in trouble?” Or “Grandma is going to be mad at me if I tell her I don’t like the gift she gave me for Christmas. Any ideas on how to handle this?” Things like these might just help your child, and show your child that he/she is not alone in making choices.
I think that Ruth is right. I believe that if you ask your child questions more and more that they will start to think about how it can sometimes be easy to make a choice. But you should not be nagging all the time. Only ask the question when you feel the time is right, because it can be very annoying when your parents ask you questions all the time about their life and you just want to tell them to leave you alone.