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Teaching Life Skills to Raise Drugproof Kids.![]() Thankfully, my father taught me many things including how to think for myself. Thus, I learned that I could teach myself the things I needed to know. Armed with the memory of my hard earned knowledge, I made the decision to provide my girls with as many life skills as possible. By the time they were 10, they could run the house, do laundry, knew what to do if there was a fire, could cook a basic meal, knew basic first aid, understood about such things as not talking to strangers, the value of tooth brushing, how to clean dog-pee off a carpet and other varied and useful things.
Actually I started very early with them and made it into a game. Each night I spent some quiet time with them once they were in bed. It was often time for a sing-song, or a story or a chat about my childhood, but also it was a time to introduce some basic skills. We had a small book, which we kept in the kitchen, which contained all the things they were learning. I would try and 'catch' them with a question, such as, "What would you do if you saw smoke coming fro the back of the TV?" They loved this kind of thing and were always anxious to tell me what they knew about fire safety. (My Dad was a fireman in London during the war so I learned a lot from him!). Thus at an early age they did their own laundry including deciding when to change and launder their bedding, they could use an iron, cook a meal, take care of each other and me if necessary.
They could brew tea safely, use the stove, feed the pets, fix things on their bikes and join in all discussions regarding the running of the house.
From this early start it was a small step to dealing with things like drug use. We chatted about everything. We watched TV together and chewed over the knotty problems in various movies. We discussed cigarettes and alcohol and - yes - drugs. It may have helped that I took them out of school and home schooled them, so they were not exposed to the peer pressure in high school.
Young people are also becoming addicted to prescription medication. Again, my children did not see us take prescription medication unnecessarily. We used different ways to deal with aches and pains, including Emotional Freedom Technique, Relaxation, Acupressure, Massage and Heat/Ice therapy.
It can even be fun to learn skills together, and doing things with your children can create a bond that drugs will have a hard time breaking.
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