The Brutal Truth Parents Often Enable Their Children's Substance Use SUSSEX About 40 people got a refresher on effective parenting during an awareness session on substance abuse at Sussex Regional High School March 12. Organized by the school's Parent School Support Committee, it was in response to a survey done last May by the NB Department of Health which probed high school students on everything from healthy food choices and mental wellness to smoking, alcohol and drug use. It was the statistics showing SRHS students are smoking, drinking and taking drugs far more early and often than both parents and administrators might have thought that prompted the gathering. [continues 762 words]
Communicate with your child's teachers, says Sussex Regional High School principal Dan McKiel. "Teachers often see changes in students, but they are reluctant to say. They may be trying to tell you something. Ask them, because a teacher is never going to come out and say 'I think you kids is doing drugs.'" Do I search my child's room? "I would," said RCMP Cst. Norm Adams, citing the argument that a child's room is still part of a house owned by the parent, who pays the bills to run that house. [continues 573 words]
