How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid
The Straight Dope for Parents
Preface
Parents, if you had a crystal ball and could see your child's future, what would you want to see?
You'd want to see your child healthy, productive, and fulfilled, wouldn't you?
Every day, you work hard to be a good parent, doing hundreds of things to make that future come true for your child. But sometimes it's hard to know if all the big and little things you do make any difference.
What if I could tell you which parenting actions work?
What if I could tell you what specific things you can do to teach, protect, and empower your child to have the greatest chance of making that future come true?
Well, in this book I'm about to do just that.
Since 1992, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University -- popularly called CASA -- has been surveying teens and parents, talking to families, interviewing the best researchers, pediatricians, adolescent counselors, scientific experts, clergy of every faith, school nurses, teachers, and principals, studying the successes and failures of schools, parents, families, ... read full excerpt from: How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents ebook
