ОСВЕЩЕНИЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ НАРКОМАНИИ В СРЕДСТВАХ МАССОВОЙ ИНФОРМАЦИИ. You do not have to wait long to find a reasonto discuss the drug problem through the media (ie. e. TV, radio, magazines, newspapers), as well as movies and music, because, as we all know, the media loves scandal and drugs scandal equivalent.
Мама очень часто смотрит со мной телевизор. Однажды мы попали на один из тех молодежных телевизионных фильмов, которые специально показывают после занятий в школе, темой его были наркотики. Мне нравится их смотреть, потому что там всегда дело происходит так: ребенок проглатывает пилюлю, а потом в следующей сцене под действием героина оказывается где-то в узком переулке с бездомными и табором цыган. В любом случае, ребенок в эпизодах принимает экстази, а потом его начинает колбасить. Мама спросила, на самом ли деле так бывает, когда принимают их. Мы начали говорить о последствиях приема различных наркотиков, о том, где в фильме правда, а где — нет. Разговаривать с ней на эту тему оказалось совсем не скучно.
Jenna, 14, Athens, Ohio.
It is significant that Jenna's mother took thetransfer of a smooth and a natural starting point for a conversation. It also allowed her to raise the topic, do not put Jenna in a situation where a girl would feel that personal privacy issues. Mother led the conversation from a third party, thereby creating an atmosphere where she and daughter were able to talk calmly and productively. Most of the benefit of the media as an excuse to start a conversation that they are in the house and literally raining down on you. At the same time, the media can be a source of misunderstanding in drug issues, and you can take advantage of this fact, not only for the beginning of the conversation, but also to help us to distinguish fact from fiction.
РЕЛИГИОЗНЫЕ СЛУЖБЫ. During religious services usually discussedquestions relating to the world and society. Let drug theme will not specifically go up, and other issues indirectly related to the problem of drug abuse will be affected. For example, the discussion of greed could serve as a wonderful continuation of the conversation with your teen about the benefits of the drug or the cynical indifference of the drug to the people for whom it is very painful drug addiction of their loved ones.
During the service, the priest discussed fragment ofBible where it says about the body as a temple for the soul, and that it should be kept in the best shape. Later that day we continued with my mother about it and she thought about drugs and that their use is contrary to this fragment. I agreed with it for the most part, but explained that some drugs used for medical purposes, while others do not have a lasting impact. Finally, we talked for almost an hour on the implications for our health that occur after the use of various drugs, and our conversation turned out to be quite good.
Patrick, 16 years, Monroe, Maine.
This is just one example of how you canuse a religious service for the breaker, but if you are careful, you can find a lot more reasons to start a conversation than you think. Such a method works best in families whose habitual common trips somewhere in the cafe, such as lunch with further discussion sermon after the service. It is always useful to find opportunities for family discussion of serious issues. If you do this regularly, then talk about drugs will be one of the themes, and you are sure to talk about them.
ШКОЛЬНЫЕ ПРОГРАММЫ. Across the country, in schools administered by the protection ratedrugs. In cases where the parents of teenagers with whom I spoke were interested in the programs of the subject they are interested in math or English, they can use the information from these programs to start talking about drugs. This subject is important in the same way as any other school discipline. With the only difference, in my opinion, that your child will not ruin your life, if you will sit down at the square roots of the parabola.
I took a course on the protection of drugs at school, andMom asked permission to look at my notes. We then talked about them and discuss issues that affect them. I was surprised, because talking about drugs, the first time I was not looking around the room window through which he could have escaped.
Billy, 14 years, Winona, Minnesota.
Using unobtrusive moment to start talking about drugs, Mom Billy built it so that his son did not understand at first, that we are talking about it.
НОВОСТИ ВАШЕГО РАЙОНА. We can no matter what do not pay attention, butsome of the events we attract. And since it really took place, rather than a simple television show, these events can make a strong impression on us. Of course, most of us are staying at home, not run into a crowd of people taking the drug, but it would be naive to think that our environment is not associated with them in one way or another.
A month ago, the guy from our area was arrestedfor the sale of large amounts of marijuana. My mother started the conversation with, does the phrase »intent to sell» (does not have to be caught in the moment of goods transfer and receipt of money for him to break the law). Suffice it to hint to guess about your intentions, and all of you are already saying. I was interested in (I did not realize that this applies to the legislation), and gradually we are talking on a very serious subject about drugs and the law.
ИСТОРИЯ СЕМЬИ. Unfortunately, sometimes we do not need to look for examples among friends, sometimes they meet in their own families.
His father told him how one of my uncles was insevere drug dependence in childhood. During the call, uncle himself was present - he and his father started this conversation. I am very interested in the stories of his uncle, because they were so real and what at first seemed very funny, very soon turned into something terrifying. I was scared that someone close to me had problems with drugs, because I always thought that these problems are somewhere far away and linked with strangers.
Benji, 13, New London, Connecticut.
ВАШ СОБСТВЕННЫЙ ОПЫТ С НАРКОТИКАМИ. Now we got on very shaky ground. Sometimes, I emphasize on the word sometimes, teens appreciate the desire of the parents to talk about their own experiences with drugs, but you really have to analyze your relationship with your child. I got all kinds of answers to the question: »Would you like to have your parents told you about their own experiences with drugs?»
My mother and I were talking about drugs, and shesuddenly began to tell me of his experiments with them in college. I said, »If it was normal to take drugs for you, why can not I do that?» She replied: »Times have changed, and besides, I was much older.» I ask, how can she blame me for my experiments, when she was engaged in the same? But she was right. Times have changed. Now the children grow up much faster, and we are ready for such things much earlier.
Mia, 14 years, Albany, New York.
But I also received, and such answers.
When my mother and I were talking about drugs, sheI dared and told me that she tried marijuana once or twice. I was a thousand times easier to talk to her because I knew she could imagine my feelings.
Hannah, 13, Jefferson City, Missouri.
As you can see for yourself, in recognition of your handdrugs in the past and may be a good and a bad idea. Some children, like Hannah, can appreciate your honesty, others will assume that it undermines parental authority. I know one thing for sure - I would call a bigot mother, if she forbade me to smoke weed, and then be admitted that she experimented with it in the past.
Some families have found a safer way. They find it very important for adults to talk with children about real life problems that arose from them because of drugs. But instead of talking about their own drug use, they asked a relative, such as his uncle, or a close and trusted friend of the family, which has its own history of drug addiction, to tell about it. Teens with whom I met and who talked to a relative of the drug, there are such discussions more useful than talking with their parents. And the real story about drug use by someone who does not establish rules of the house, has a greater impact.
