Stay Smart - education
Education
Research shows that the following factors have positive and protective effects on children and young people, reducing the likelihood of risky behavior, depression, anxiety and other forms of dysphoria:
Positive impact
- Strong parent cooperation
- Care and warmth
- Participation in organized activities
- Parents know who young people are with and where they are in the evenings and on weekends
- Know their children's friends and the friends' parents
- Set clear rules about things in children's daily lives. What is allowed and what is not, both at home and outside the home
- Respect curfew times
- Don't allow parties without parents present
- Time spent with parents, such as:
- Playing together
- Watching movies
- Cooking and/or baking together
- Eating together
- Working together on necessary projects
Factors that research indicates have negative effects on children and young people and increase the likelihood of risky behavior:
Negative impact
- Having friends who use substances
- Tobacco, alcohol and illegal drugs
- Hanging around and being unsupervised
- Too little nighttime sleep
- Too much screen time
- Children who are too young on social media
- "New" types of substances, such as nicotine and caffeine products where teenagers and young people are the target audience
- Pornography viewing
- Positive parental attitudes toward young people's alcohol consumption
