Tips for Parents

	Tips for Parents

Parents: Below is just one of the resources to you. If you look on the left side of the screen where the categories are, under "Tips for Parents" you will find other links. I hope that some of them are useful.

The National PTA offers Back to School Central as a comprehensive resource of information for the back-to-school season. The content on this section of PTA's website includes information on preparing kids for school, advice on how to transition from a summer schedule, how to evaluate schools, and more to equip parents for the new school year. More resources can be found in PTA's Great Idea Bank, which is an online community of parents and PTA leaders sharing ideas on parenting and being involved in PTA, among other topics.

http://www.americaspromise.org/News-and-Events/News-and-Features/APB-2011/Vol-26/PTA-Back-To-School.aspx

Drug Awareness information for Parents:

DID YOU KNOW…..

Ø 1 in 4 children live with severe alcohol abuse or alcoholism.

Ø When you add all of the other drugs of abuse (cocaine, heroin, marijuana, prescription drugs, meth, etc), that stat becomes 1 in 3.

Ø In a classroom of 24, there are 8 who live with familial addiction.

Ø COA’s (Children of Addicts) are 4 times more likely to suffer neglect.

What's Up in the Teen World of Drugs

Does This Concern You?

According to the recent study released by CASA at Columbia University:

46 percent of all high school students currently use addictive substances. 1 in 3 meets the medical criteria for addiction.
9 out of 10 Americans who are dealing with addiction started smoking, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
1 in 4 American teens who used addictive substance before age 18 became addicted. 1 in 25 young adults who started using at 21 or older became addicted.

What's Wrong with This Picture?

According to the recent study released by Partnership for Drug Free.org:

Almost half of teens (45 percent) reported they do not see a "great risk" in heavy daily drinking.
Only 31 percent of teens strongly disapprove of teens their age getting drunk.
Most teens, seven out of 10 (73 percent), report having friends who drink alcohol at least once a week.

When Does it Start?

Of those teens who reported alcohol use, a majority (62 percent) said they had their first full alcoholic drink by age 15, not including sipping or tasting alcohol.
Of those teens who reported alcohol use, one in four (25 percent), said they drank a full alcoholic drink for the first time by age 12 or younger.

How's Your Family Communication?

One in three teens (32 percent) thinks their parents would be ok if they drank beer once in a while.
Only one in ten parents agrees with teens drinking beer at a party.

video clip you might find interesting if you have kids in fifth grade or higher.

The link will take you to a news clip from Detroit about a popular way kids are hiding alcohol in plain site.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/29384556/index.html

Isbell Elementary Counselor Site
Frisco ISD