Healthy and happy child (Part 1)

from Lyudmila Gannoha

Healthy and happy child - is there greater happiness for parents !? I have been helping the relatives of addicts for more than 20 years. I tell them how to treat their drug and alcohol addicted children, and most importantly, how not to treat them. Every time I have to, in the full sense of the word, fight with my relatives for their participation in the process of survival of their dependent children, I have a desire to talk not about what to do when the problem of addiction is already placed in the family, and about how to protect the child from drug / alcohol use and whether this is possible !?

I want to talk about the causes of addiction. To explain to parents that addiction to alcohol, nicotine, drugs - this is a disease. A disease that is no less terrible than cancer, stroke, AIDS, viruses…Every disease has its causes, so it has its key methods for its prevention. Healthy and happy child - isn't this the greatest happiness for parents !?But, unfortunately, modern families are increasingly suffering from the fact that their beloved child becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol…Synthetics and psychostimulants - this is the teenager's first acquaintance with narcotics. These are amphetamines, methamphetamines, synthetic marijuana ("spice"). Dependence on them occurs after two or three claims. According to statistics, the main age of first acquaintance with drugs falls on 11-14-year-olds (41%) and 15-17-year-olds (51%): mainly smoking marijuana, the use of SPICE (smoking mixture) and hashish , the use of inhalants (these are fumes of toxic substances that are used by the addict to experience pleasure, to make him "cool"). Many household substances can also be used as inhalants, as well as the use of alcohol with medication. They also use therapeutic painkillers that contain opiates. In addition, the use of the hallucinogen LSD (so-called "brands"), a mind-altering drug, has recently increased in popularity. If before teenagers started their adult life from alcohol, now - they start it from drugs. All this should make us alert !!! And above all, the parents. Prevention of drug addiction should start with the family. Can you protect your child from people who have tried drugs? No!!! He can meet them everywhere: at school, on the street, at the institute, on the sports field and at the disco. But you can prepare your child for these meetings in such a way that they do not become fatal for him. What then should parents do to protect their child from drug addiction! ??

How should your child be brought up to be able to resist the temptation to try drugs !?First of all - to pay enough attention to the child from an early age. For the child, the attention of the parents is on the same level with such needs as food and sleep. Communicate with your child. Communication is a basic human need, especially for parents and children. The lack of communication with you makes him turn to other people who could talk to him. But who are they and what will they advise your child?

Try to be the initiators of open and open communication. Unfortunately, this communication is usually formal and comes down to discussing school and homework. Because the processes that take place in school are more understandable to parents, unlike the books and movies that their teenage children read and watch. Parents need to know what the child is interested in and at the same time not look like "dinosaurs" in his eyes. The gap between the interests of adults and teenagers is increasing with the development of digital technologies. Children and parents spend most of their time online.

The modern family often representatives of different generations coexist under one roof, but communicate with each other formally, without emotions (via SMS-messages), and this leads to psychological problems in the child in the future. When there is a lack of communication between parents and children - the child closes in on himself, moves away… To the question, for example, how are you, he answers as strangers: everything is normal, everything is fine.

The loneliness of children in the world of adults is too often manifested when the child develops a problem with behavior, learning, Internet addiction, alcohol, drugs. In the next post we will continue to talk about how parents can protect their child from the problem of drug addiction.

But if this problem already exists in your family, do not hesitate to call 0877900391- Ekaterina. I will be happy to help you !!