Tips For Parents: How To Educate Your Kids on Vices
Children normally start out as these fantastic bursts of joy that will make you cry, laugh and make your heart literally melt with their smeared pictures, unfiltered commentary, and innocence. As they grow older, they start getting more independent, and this can be noticed even when they’re still relatively very young. They begin to spew back at the adults the same things they’ve learned from them. These stages are really when you need to be extra careful with your kids because this is when they can pick up on vices.
Herein below are a few tips on how you can educate your kid on vices.
1. Keep Open Lines Of Communication
Let your children know that you’re safe and that they can always come and talk to you for help. Ensure you let them know that it’s okay for them to come to you with whatever that may be going on in their lives, whether bad or good. As they slowly get into high school, they often start experiencing more pressure to take drugs and alcohol, which can inevitably lead to drug abuse problems. Residential drug rehab is the treatment they normally prescribe to children with drug abuse issues and is very effective on young patients. Teach your kids ways of how they can avoid giving in to such pressures.
2. Start The Education At An Early Age
With younger kids, the opinions you have on what is “good” and what is “bad” is very important. Ensure they know how to identify what things are helpful to them and what things are harmful to them as well. As they get a little older, you can start explaining to them the few things that can make them sick or unwell when they’ve been put into their body. Show them the stuff they are not meant to eat or drink. You can explain to them that there are certain types of drugs that when put into the body can be extremely dangerous and can end up interfering with the body’s overall natural functions.
3. Be Strong On How You Yourself Views Drugs
Let your children know that alcohol and drugs can lead to not only harming oneself but also several others around them as well. Tell them that drinking alcohol and taking drugs can help cause fatal accidents. Ensure your kids understand how dangerous things taken in excess can be, including pharmaceutical drugs and pills. Tell them how dangerous it is taking drugs and explain to them that even pain relievers and cough syrup in excess can poison your body.
4. Define What Drugs Are
Essentially, drugs are poison. A little will help speed things up for you, a bit more than that will start to slow things down, while too much of it will certainly kill you. Drugs and medication do very many different things to your body. Too much of any of them will kill internal organs, cells and even the entire body itself.
No family, child or parent is immune to the impacts of drug abuse. Any child can end up finding themselves in trouble. It’s sad but true. Even those that have had the proper parental guidance. However, there are ways you can try and prevent such from happening. Hopefully, this article has shown you where you can start.
I have a daughter who is turning 7 this Nov 2019. Your no. 1 and 2 advices for moms are very relative and important to us moms with kids this age but for now I don’t elaborate the no. 3 and 4 about drugs. “pAhapyaw lang” most specially when watching tele-novelas.
As of now, it’s hard to explain all things on all her questions.Questions about God, how babies where made, planets,creation. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to explain to my daughter properly.
Yes, grabe, Minsan we neglect that some of our actions/vices are being followed by our kids. We need
more patience in bringing up our kids.
We always want the best for our children and having an open communication with them is really important. Naalala ko nung 5 yrs. old pa lang eldest ko while we’re inside the vicinity ng East Avenue Medical Ctr. may tinanong siya sa akin about sa standee ng di niya mawari kung alien ba o ano kasi iba itsura… sabi ko sa kanya ganyan mangyayari sa mga taong naninigarilyo. And ngayon, teen na siya mahirap labanan ang peer pressure, nakikita niya sa mga kaklase/kabarkada at kahit constant ang reminder ko sa kanya na layuan at iwasan ang sigarilyo =(
Drugs, sana naman hindi… with the news and all about it, sana makatulong din at malaman niya mga consequences, magiging impact sa buhay niya, lalo na sa pamilya. Katulong dapat ang community para mailayo mga bata sa drugs atbp. vices.
Yes we need to tell always to our kids what a bad and good . Mas maiintindihan naman nila lalo kapg paulit ulit mong sasabihin kung ano yung masma para atleast pag malaki na alam na nila lalo na paginom na alcohol.
my son is only 9 y.o.even nun nagsisimula pa lang siya mag aral lagi ko siya pinapangaralan and Sabi ko nak kahit h/s kana puntahan pa rin Kita ha,till now and always and sagot niya opo nanay and it article na it I aadapt ko para ma we’ll manage ko ang pagpalaki ko sa dalawa Kong anak
Panganay ko teenager na thirteen years old na, marunong na sya umintindi sa tama o mali, pero ang paggagabay at pagpapayo ko sa kanya di nawawala palagi pa rin ako sumusubaybay sa kanya.
Challenging part talaga ng mga parents ang maiwas sila sa masamang bisyo.
Thanks for the tips mmy. Ako talagang lahat halos ini explain ko maigi sa mga anak ko. Pati yung mga nakikita nila sa paligid at sa napapanuod nila. Binabase ko kasi sa experience ko, na walang nakatutok at naka alalay sa mga bagay bagay na naku curious ako. Kaya pag may tanong ang mga anak ko or napapansin ko na na-curious sila sa isang bagay, pinapaliwanag ko. And yes, open communication is napaka importante.
For me, napakahalaga po talaga ng communication and education about vices. In able for our children to know, kailangan maipaliwanag sa kanila ang lahat ng pros and cons sa mga ganyang bagay kapag na-involve sila. Thanks for the tips po.
Dapat talaga tayo ang mag gagabay sa ating mga anak, at tayo ang maging magandang halimbawa nila, sa,1 to 4 na yan lahat yan sinasabi ko sa kanila ipinapaliwanag ko sa kanila..lalo na mga girls lahat ng anak ko..thank you po sa parent tips nyo π
Thanks momsh sa parenting tips i have 2 kids and my eldest daughter medyo matured magisip .. madalas magtanong sa napapanood sa tv.. sa panahon ngayon mahalagang tutok tayo sa mga kids natin..
Thank you sa parenting tips momsh .. Laking tulong nung about sa alcohol and drugs since i have 2 lalaking anak.Dapat ngayon plang ipapaliwanag ko na sa knila ang about dyan ng paunte onte para pag laki nila alam na nila ang tama sa hindi when it comes to that matter ..
Sa panahon ngayon marami ng nakaka impluwensya sa ating mga anak.. andyan ang social media. Ang telebisyon. Minsan di na natin sila nasusundan sa mga napapanood nila dahil busy din tayo sa mga gawaing bahay bilang may bahay. kaya mahalaga na ipaliwanag natin sa mga anak natin ang epekto ng droga sa tao. yung mga anak ko matanong sila pag may napapanood sila sa tv, nag tatanong sila lalo kung di nila maintindihan.. kailangan sagutin natin yun at ipaliwanag natin sakanila ng malinaw kung ano ang epekto ng mga bagay bagay sakanila.
Dapat talaga nasusubaybayan natin ang mga bata para hindi sila malulong sa mga bisyo gaya ng droga na talamak ngayon..
True momshie , I already build an open communication with my kids . Everyday I always ask them kamusta maghapon then kapag may news I always warned them kaya I know they are all aware as much as possible .
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Thank you po sa Parenting tips Mommy. True po dapat iguide natin ang anak natin kung tama o mali ang ginagawa nya at a very young age, importante po ang role nating mga parents, malaki ang imlpuwensya nating mga magulang para mapalaki sila ng maayos lalu na kapag drugs ang pinag-usapan.
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This is really informative to us. Thank you for this information. Vices are hard to remove once it already started. It is wise to educate young children about the bad effects of those vices / drugs.
Thank you for more information, sa ngayon po talaga need talaga natin sabihan ang mga anak naten about drugs dahil pag naging teens na sila hindi naten malalaman if yung mga friends na makikilala nila is good or bad influence.kaya bilang parents isaksak na naten sa utak nila kung ano ang masamang dulot ng drugs.
Struggle ko talaga since naging mom ako yong #2. Madalas kasi nagiging matanong na yong 4yrs old na anak ko hirap na hirap ako sa pag explain. Alin ba ang dapat sabihin sa hindi dapat sabihin or kung ano naiintindihan yong madali niya ma gets sa hindiπ°