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40 Developmental Assets for Adolescents: Search Institute has identified the following building blocks of healthy development—known as Developmental Assets—that help young children grow up healthy, caring, and responsible. Here are some other useful links:
Download this informative parent guide here.
DEA has produced several useful booklets to provide parents, caregivers and educators useful information on illicit drugs and drugs of abuse, the harmful consequences of teen use of illicit drugs and drugs of abuse and drug trends. These publications are in pdf format and can be downloaded here.
https://drugfree.org/download/parent-talk-kit/
A teachable moment is an unplanned event during the day that adults can use as a learning opportunity for kids. A teachable moment can happen almost anywhere; chances are, many of the valuable lessons you learned as a child were not consciously taught at all. Rather, they were learned in the midst of casual moments of “real life” -- shopping in the supermarket, walking through a mall, setting the table for dinner, strolling outdoors, or driving to the store, playing games, and coloring with mom or dad. Here are some websites to help you get the information you need to start those teachable moments:
http://www.drugfree.org/resources/
http://www.drugabuse.gov/parents-educators
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