Preventing Your Child’s Future Drug and Alcohol Use

Parents Together
& The Anti-Drug
Cone Room
Greenwich Town Hall
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
9:15am

They Only Get To Grow Up Once: Preventing Your Child’s Future Drug and Alcohol Use

Alison Birnbaum, LCSW, “Ask the Expert” at www.theAntiDrug.com,

This skill building session focuses on how to communicate with your kids and keep them substance free.  It includes topics such as “How to monitor without being irritating,” “It is possible to be cool even if you don’t smoke or drink,” “How important is an “absolute no,” “Urban legends like “trust” and “teaching my child to drink safely,” and “When is the right time for the d & a talk?”  Alison has conducted extensive market research on how to help parents speak to their children about drug use.

This is a free lecture sponsored by Parents Together.

TheAntiDrug.com was created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to equip parents and other adult caregivers with the tools they need to raise drug-free kids. Working with the nation’s leading experts in the fields of parenting and substance abuse prevention, TheAntiDrug.com serves as a drug prevention information center, and a supportive community for parents to interact and learn from each other.

The site provides parents and other adults caregivers access to:

* Helpful articles and advice from experts in the fields of parenting and substance abuse prevention;
* Science-based drug prevention information, news and studies;
* Support from other parents striving to keep their children drug-free;
* Perspectives of teens themselves.