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spare the rod,.. get a drug abuser..

Steve

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Early Discipline Prevents Teen Drug Use: Study

Correcting disruptive behavior in young children could help prevent them from using alcohol and drugs when they're teens, researchers report.

Their study included boys with disruptive behavior in kindergarten who were divided into three groups. All of the boys came from low-income families in Montreal.

One group of 46 boys took part in a two-year intervention program when they were ages 7 to 9. The program included training to help the boys learn self-control and reduce impulsive and antisocial behavior. Their parents were taught to recognize problem behaviors in their sons, set clear goals and reinforce appropriate behaviors.

All of the boys in the study were followed until age 17 in order to assess their use of alcohol and drugs. The boys in the two-year program had lower levels of drug and alcohol use from their early teens until they completed high school than the boys in the other two groups, according to the study

"Our study shows that a two-year intervention aimed at key risk factors in disruptive kindergarten boys from low socioeconomic environments can effectively reduce substance use behaviors in adolescence -- not only in early adolescence but up to the end of high school, eight years post-intervention," study author Natalie Castellanos-Ryan, of the University of Montreal, said in a university news release.

"This finding is noteworthy because the effects are stronger and longer-lasting than for most substance use interventions that have been studied before," she added.

The findings suggest "that by selectively targeting disruptive behaviors in early childhood, and without addressing substance use directly, we could have long-term effects on substance use behaviors in later life," Castellanos-Ryan said.
 

Steve

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iwannabeacowboy said:
Next your going to try and say that a two parent home is beneficial. :roll: :D

I italicized it just for u Steve. :D

Study: Children thrive in calm, two-parent households

yep they have a study that claims that is a good thing as well... :D

Who would have known? (besides Grandma)
 

Steve

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iwannabeacowboy said:
I italicized it just for u Steve. :D

Thanks, it is the little touches such as capitalization, bolding, spelling and smileys that shows a person cares about what they say...

But if they get all the punctuation and grammar correct they may be just to uptight.. :D
 

Faster horses

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Now we know Iwannabeacowboy isn't uptight, because he spelled what should be spelled 'you're' as 'your'. :D




"Next your going to try and say that a two parent home is beneficial." :p

Years ago we had a 'spell check policeman' on board. Remember that?? :p :wink:
 

S.S.A.P.

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Steve said:
iwannabeacowboy said:
Next your going to try and say that a two parent home is beneficial. :roll: :D

I italicized it just for u Steve. :D

Study: Children thrive in calm, two-parent households

yep they have a study that claims that is a good thing as well... :D

Who would have known? (besides Grandma)

... and when the ''calm'' is not there, I do not have a problem with single-parenting. There are circumstances when two-parent homes are not healthy.
 
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