For Parents
Six Quick Tips to Help Keep Your Children Safe, Healthy and Alcohol Free:
- Don't think "it's not MY child" because every child is susceptible.
- Remember that YOU are the biggest influence in your children's life: the more you connect with them the less likely they'll be to give into peer pressure.
- Don't be fooled that youth alcohol use is a rite of passage, it can damage an adolescent brain.
- Establish explicit rules and consequences: articulate a clear family policy that underage drinking will not be tolerated and enforce it.
- Don't allow youth drinking in your home: teens who are allowed to drink alcohol in their home consume twice as much as those who live in a home with a no-tolerance policy.
- Be a positive role model: drink responsibly and let them see you decline alcohol from time to time as well.
Source: Oregon Partnership's Helping Parents Reduce Youth Alcohol Use
More Information & Insight
Oregon Partnership: Parenting For Prevention
Oregon Partnership: Helping parents reduce youth alcohol use
Southern Oregon Drug Awareness
Oregon Impact: Saving lives one story at a time
Oregon Department of Justice:Â Underage Drinking Task Force
Parents: The Anti-Drug
The Partnership for a Drug-Free America
The Search Institute
Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center: Underage drinking in Oregon
Search Institute for healthy children, youth and communities
The National Parenting Center
STOP Underage Drinking: Portal of Federal Resources
Duke University Medical Center: Long-term effect of alcohol abuse during adolescence.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: Alcohol and the Developing Brain
