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How a Positive Attitude Can Affect Your Child’s Future

Posted by Informed Families on April 23, 2023 at 10:55 PM

If you want your child to do well both in school and in their career, it turns out that helping them maintain a positive attitude may be the most effective technique you can use.

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Topics: parenting, parent involvement, positive parenting, teenagers, teens

What Parents Should Know About Xylazine

Posted by Informed Families on April 16, 2023 at 10:49 PM

In the face of the recent public health alert from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which we told you about last month, U.S. lawmakers are moving to classify the dangerous animal tranquilizer xylazine as a controlled substance.

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Topics: parenting, marijuana legalization, marijuana, teenagers, teens, cannabis, Xylazine

How to Be Your Child’s Cheerleader

Posted by Informed Families on April 2, 2023 at 7:34 PM

Our children face challenges of one degree or another every day of their lives. It’s part of growing up. It’s up to you to help your child persevere in the tasks they will need to accomplish throughout their lives.

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Topics: parenting, marijuana legalization, marijuana, teenagers, teens, cannabis

DEA Issues Public Safety Alert on Xylazine

Posted by Informed Families on March 27, 2023 at 10:26 AM

 Important announcement from DEA! The DEA is warning the American public of a sharp increase in the trafficking of fentanyl mixed with Xylazine. Xylazine, also known as “Tranq,” is a powerful sedative that the FDA has approved for veterinary use.

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Topics: parenting, marijuana legalization, marijuana, teenagers, teens, cannabis

Bucking the Trend, Oklahoma Rejects Legalized Marijuana

Posted by Informed Families on March 19, 2023 at 3:55 PM

Finally, some good news in the fight for drug sanity: Earlier this month, Oklahoma voters resoundingly rejected a ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana use. With nearly all the precincts reporting, the vote was 62 percent opposed and 38 percent in favor of the measure.

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Topics: parenting, marijuana legalization, marijuana, teenagers, teens, cannabis

What to Do If Your Child Smokes Marijuana

Posted by Informed Families on March 12, 2023 at 3:07 PM

Today, widespread marijuana use has become an unfortunate fact of life. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia have legalized its use, and 20 others—including Florida—have approved it for medical use. Celebrities like Bill Maher, Willie Nelson, and Woody Harrelson brag about their constant use of the drug.

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Topics: parenting, marijuana legalization, marijuana, teenagers, teens, cannabis

Teaching Kids Endurance

Posted by Informed Families on February 26, 2023 at 3:38 PM

There are so many things we need to teach our kids to prepare them for a healthy, happy, productive life.

One philosopher thought endurance was the single most important life skill to teach our children:

“Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it’s the one they will most need to know.”

—Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Topics: parenting, teenagers, teens, redribbonfridays

The Edible Marijuana Danger to Young Kids

Posted by Informed Families on February 19, 2023 at 9:23 PM

Here’s just one more reason why it’s such a bad idea to legalize marijuana: A recent report from the National Poison Data System (NPDS) found that calls to poison control centers about kids five and under accidentally consuming marijuana edibles rose from 207 in 2017 to 3,054 in 2021—a 1,375 percent increase. In 98 percent of these cases, the victims found the edibles either at home or at a friend’s house.

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Topics: parenting, teenagers, teens, redribbonfridays

Keeping Your Child Safe from Bullies

Posted by Informed Families on February 12, 2023 at 5:00 AM

According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, one in every five students reports being bullied at school. It happens to all races, sexes, income levels, and grade levels, according to the center’s findings.

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Topics: parenting, teenagers, teens, bullies, cyberbully

The 2023 National Red Ribbon Week Theme

Posted by Informed Families on January 30, 2023 at 11:43 AM

Drum roll please... introducing the 2023 National Red Ribbon Week Theme: "Be Kind to Your Mind. Live Drug-Free."™

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Topics: parenting, teenagers, teens, redribbonfridays

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We teach people how to say no to drugs and how to make healthy choices. To reduce the demand for drugs, Informed Families has focused its efforts on educating and mobilizing the community, parents and young people in order to change attitudes. In this way we counteract the pressures in society that condone and promote drug and alcohol use and abuse. The organization educates thousands of families annually about how to stay drug and alcohol free through networking and a variety of programs and services .

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