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The most undesirable feature of modern life is its speed. This mindless rapidity does not allow time for anyone to pause and think. The impact of this can be seen in the way the intrinsic quality of life has degenerated creating a plethora of problems to individual families.

As your child graduates from class to higher class, you need to pay more and more attention and keenly watch his daily learning. When he grows into junior high, he will have greater exposure to a lot of good and bad things. Newer friends and environment increases his curiosity and he tends to learn a lot faster. Equally naturally, one disadvantage he will have to grow up with is his lack of discretion. That is where you have a focused role to play.

The biggest concern will be the drugs. Today, it is surveyed that an alarming 8% of kids in their sixth grade have tried marijuana. As they move on the next grade, this figure shoots up to a worrisome 20%. All these mean that as parents you have to brace up to handle the problem effectively and diplomatically. At an age when they can become rebellious to certain suggestions, trying to tackle the situation without love and diplomacy can be counter-productive.

Sharing the parental concerns about this nightmarish possibility, a few tips are suggested here on how to handle the situation, if and when it crops up. These are essentially excerpted from the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.

• Draw up a set of rules and convince your kids on the need to follow it.
• Keenly watch what kind of company your kid is in. Develop a default sense of time and discipline in your kids so you will see a pattern in their leaving  home and returning.
• Recognize and express the positive things in them, giving them a sense of self-respect and pride about their integrity and stature.
• Teach them how to say NO to drugs.
• Earmark some very special time to be spent one-on-one with your kids regularly to preserve an amicable and amiable relationship.
• Educate them on the consequences of even “trying” the drugs.
• Make them conscious of their good health. Convince them of the need to be discreet with choosing friends and developing habits.
• Engage them in friendly, casual conversations and light-hearted debates about drugs as a serious social menace. That puts a sense of responsibility in them.
• Explain to them how drugs work in human body, how it eats into the vitals of our body system. Give them examples of kids who performed poorly in school and ruined their valuable lives.
• Most importantly, for kids, there are no better role models than their parents. Teach them through your own actions of responsibility and self-respect.