When kids don’t listen to their parents, they often suffer from consequences that could have been avoided. They tend to make poor decisions when think they can get away with something and often possess a false sense of certainty that bad things won’t happen to them.
Warning signs and advice from their parents, who have learned from experience, are ignored. Kids don’t always realize that foresight to them is hindsight to people who’ve experienced the same things.
When it relates to the topic of teens and their willingness to experiment with drugs, parents would be well advised to follow the very advice they bestow on their own kids: learn from people who have been there.
In the past, the words “My kid would never do that” Read the rest of this entry