When Role Models Fall, Teens at Risk Can Learn
Teen crisis intervention starts long before your teenager reaches adolescence. Reports indicate that kids as young as nine and ten are choosing to play around with drugs. For good or ill, celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and the thoroughly disgraced Britney Spears can serve as a lesson for your young teens. It’s obvious that they can no longer serve as role models but they can teach teens at risk that drugs can destroy even the best and brightest.
That is one mother dealt with her daughter’s disappointment with Lindsay Lohan.
“I thank Lindsey Lohan for forcing me giving me the opportunity to talk to Ellie about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. It’s a conversation I might have saved for later, when she was a bit older, but thanks to the widely reported exploits of this girl, Ellie now has a basic understanding of addiction and the difficulties of recovery.
I am not sure exactly how Ellie found out about Lindsay Lohan’s troubles, but she did. And the look on her face as I explained what happened to her broke my heart. I know Ellie has to grow up sometime and learn about these things, and common wisdom has it that the earlier you begin these conversations, the better off your kids will be. But try as I might, I can’t put a positive spin on the reality that Ellie’s childlike adoration of Lindsay Lohan turned into an innocence-shattering lesson about poor parenting and bad choices.”
And that is the best thing you can do when your teen’s idols are busted for drugs - use it as a life lesson, a demonstration of how drug addiction can ruin the lives of young people who have everything to live for.
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