No such thing as safe drug use

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I don't believe there is such a thing as teaching kids to use drugs or alcohol safely. The human body doesn't develop that way. When parents start to allow kids to use an alcoholic or drug in their human body, they are not realizing that the frontal lobe of the human body hasn't developed yet. They don't develop until the mid 20's. Also, the liver, which is your bodies filtering system. Everything has to metabolize through the liver, doesn't develop until early 20's. It really takes a lifetime of, starting at preschool, to talk to your kids about safety. It is all the little things that we say and do for a lifetime, that teaches your kids safety when it comes to drugs and alcohol.

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Kelly Townsend, MS

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Miles To Go’s Kelly and her husband Jonathan are professional speakers, writers and parents who specialize in drug prevention education for students, teachers and parents. Working from their base in Southern California, they have spent the past 17 years lecturing in the private school community using humor, science and multi-sensory teaching techniques to simplify a complex subject. Their first book, Not All Kids Do Drugs came out in 2010 and their second The Mother’s Checklist of Drug Prevention in 2011. Their third book, Where’s The Party was published in 2012.

 

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I don't believe there is such a thing as teaching kids to use drugs or alcohol safely. The human body doesn't develop that way. When parents start to allow kids to use an alcoholic or drug in their human body, they are not realizing that the frontal lobe of the human body hasn't developed yet. They don't develop until the mid 20's. Also, the liver, which is your bodies filtering system. Everything has to metabolize through the liver, doesn't develop until early 20's. It really takes a lifetime of, starting at preschool, to talk to your kids about safety. It is all the little things that we say and do for a lifetime, that teaches your kids safety when it comes to drugs and alcohol.