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File:
"20 Ways to Encourage Your Kids to Use
Drugs"
(from The
Peterborough-Lakefield Community Police)
1. Never eat together as a
family
2. Never have family outings;
weekly, monthly, or annually that they can look forward to as a
family
3. Talk TO your children, not WITH
them - never listen
4. Punish your children in public
and never praise them or reinforce their positive
behaviour
5. Always solve their problems and
make their decisions for them
6. Leave the responsibilities of
teaching morality and spiritual training to the schools and the
Church
7. Never allow your children to
experience cold, fatigue, adventure, injury, risk, challenge,
experimentation, failure, frustration, or discouragement
8. Threaten your children (eg. "If
you ever use drugs, I'll punish you!")
9. Always expect your children to
get straight As in school in all subjects
10. Always pick up after them and
don't encourage them to accept responsibility
11. Discourage your child from
talking about their feelings
12. Be overprotective and don't
teach your child the meaning of the word consequence
13. Make your child feel that
their mistakes are always unacceptable
14. Put your child off when the
ask "why", or tell them "Because I said so"
15. Lead your child to believe
that you are perfect and infallible
16. Keep your atmosphere in a
state of chaos
17. Never tell them how much you
LOVE THEM and never discuss your feelings with them
18. Never hug them or display
affection in front of them
19. Always expect the worst and
never give them the benefit of the doubt
20. Don't ever trust
them