Raising a Teenager When the War on Drugs is on

There’s enough to worry about in life without having to worry about your teenager getting on drugs, yet the truth is they will be offered drugs at some point and time in their life. Sure, it’s easy to say your teenager will never be offered drugs but the hard dose of reality is he or she will likely be offered drugs several times in the course of their high school years.

What do you do when your teenager comes home and tells you someone asked them to get high? What will you do if they come home and ask you to call the school about the drug pusher who is pushing methamphetamines outside the school grounds? What will you do? Chances are, you will never know because in all likelihood, if someone asks your teen to get high, they won’t tell it whether they do it or not. If someone is pushing meth outside the school sports fields, you won’t know it because they won’t tell you.

The fact is that even if you talk to your teenager about drugs and drug abuse, the reality is that raising your teenager is going to be a challenge and getting your teen through their years in high school drug free will be your biggest challenge. Even if you raise your child to ‘just say no’ and all of the other things mothers and fathers against drugs are supposed to do. Teach your child what you want them to do and tell them what you don’t want them to do and then expect them to do it anyway. They’re kids after all and peer pressure is something that will get the best of them. How you deal with it when it happens is entirely up to you.

Many parents have decided to wage an all out war on drugs. The reasons are pretty clear. The drug of choice is no longer pot. Your child won’t be getting high on pot if he or she gets high, it’ll be stronger. In fact, in all likelihood it will be methamphetamines or crack. Did you raise your teenager to say no to meth? Sure you did but the pushers of the junk will still be waiting outside the door of the school, down the hall after practice and at the mall on Saturdays because that’s what they do, they push drugs on the users and they push drugs on the non-users until they either eventually get them to use or they get them to tell. Unfortunately, there aren’t too many teens telling their parents all about the meth head pushing drugs at the ballgames.

Parents are forced to incorporate a war on drugs because the drugs of choice by teenagers are always going to be whatever it is that everyone is taking and selling and right now its meth. Crystal meth is killing kids, taking moms away from their children and placing more people in state mental health hospitals and morgues than any other drug before it. If you think your child will never see it or know what it looks like, then open your eyes. It is out there and it will be in front of your child sooner or later because the pushers of it have no fear. They are usually users themselves.

If you are a parent of a teenager in a public school, make it perfectly clear that drugs will not be tolerated in your home and make it clear what will happen to the teen if they are caught using drugs. Rehab or jail and nothing will be discussed. Make it clear to them and make them believe you because the only other options for the kids who do drugs now days is a trip to the cemetery in a casket.

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