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Drug Prevention Checklist
As a parent or guardian, you have the most influence on significantly reducing your child’s chance of becoming involved with alcohol and/or drugs. Stay involved in your child’s daily life by encouraging interests and closely monitoring activities. All of the following measures are important in making sure that your child’s life is structured in such a way that alcohol and drugs have no place in it:
-If possible, arrange to have your children looked after and engaged from 3pm to 5pm. Encourage them to get involved with youth groups, arts, music, sports, and school clubs.
-Make sure children who are unattended for periods during the day FEEL YOUR PRESENCE! Give them a schedule and set limits on their behavior. Give them household chores and enforce a strict phone-in-to-you-policy. Leave notes for them around the house.
-Get to know the parents of your child’s friends. Exchange phone numbers. Have everyone agree to forbid each other’s children from using alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in their homes. Agree to inform the other if one becomes aware of a child violating this pact.
-Call parents whose home is to be used for a party. Make sure they can assure you that no alcoholic beverages or illegal substances will be dispensed. Make sure there will be adult supervision at all times. Check out the party yourself if needed.
-Make it easy for your child to leave a place where substances are being used. Discuss in advance how to contact you or another adult for a ride home.
-Set curfews and enforce them.
-Encourage open dialogue with your children about their experiences. “I love and trust you, but I don’t trust the world around you, and I need to know what’s going on in your life so I can be a good parent to you.
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