My son was talking to me about one of his classmate who doesn’t go to school anymore because of drug addiction. He relates that, this classmate learned how to use Methamphetamine because of the child’s father, he would always come home high on drugs and beats his mother and abuses his sister; and being the youngest in the family, he could do nothing but endure the situation; that also drove him to become a user in order to forget this misfortune in his life. My son feels that it’s unfair for parents, especially to fathers who do this kind of horror to his family, but as sad and moving as the story was, all I could do is to console my child. In the article Drugs and Teens: What can parents do, we learn that even to the most caring and careful parents there will always be danger of their children getting hooked on drugs, and the only way we can win this battle is to learn to decipher the signs of drug addiction in their behaviour, and to learn how to communicate with a defiant teenager. Another schoolmate, who’s parents is in the Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage business also fell into this prey when this girl got hooked up with the wrong crowd and started to learn “experimenting.” Most parents would be in denial; “Not my little Johnny?!” but doing so and keeping a blind eye, won’t help your child, severe drug addiction often leads to a more tragic result, like suicide. Parents should be regarded for their undying love and devotion to their children, and the hard work they put in taking care of the family and meeting their needs, but we should not fall into the trap of being too busy to even talk to them everyday, when they most need our counsel before everything goes out of hand.

29th January, 2010 | Education, Household/Parenting, Personal Growth