Tips for Parents:

1. Be supportive of your kids. Compliment them on all their efforts, the strength of their character and their individuality.
2. Get your kids involved in adult supervised activities. It may take awhile to find the right activity, but it's worth the effort.
3. Help your kids develop tools they can use to get out of alcohol or drug related situations
   and to resist peer pressures.
4. Get to know your children’s friends and parents. Talk with those parents to make sure they share the same views on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
5. If your child wants to go to a party, call to make sure it will be parent supervised.
6. Set curfews and house rules. Let children know the consequences of breaking these rules. Follow through with discipline related to consequences.
7. Encourage open dialogue with your children. Make sure your children understand they can come to you with anything and you will be honest and open in answering them.
8. Set a no-use rule for alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Educate yourself about drugs so that you can talk informatively with your children and answer their questions.
9. Sit down for dinner or family time at least once a week. Use this time to talk.
10. Get involved with your child’s life. Spend time with them. Get to know their concerns and show them how much they mean to you.
11. If a problem does exist, don’t say “Not my child!” Get help.

Please join with us and D.A.R.E. to keep our kids off drugs and to make good choices in life.