Every night, we sat at the dinner table. Kim Glover of Redding who has three children said parents work around the clock these days, so children have no supervision or guidance. Denial is another crippling problem, experts said. Last summer, Shasta County sheriff's deputy Jeff Foster helped bust a party of 400 Foothill High School students out in Palo Cedro. Ninety percent of the kids who were there had parents who would have sworn their child wasn't, Foster said.
Silence is acceptance.
I don't think there's a magic act that parents can do to keep their kids from drinking,'' Anderson said. But staying actively involved in their children's schools, paying attention to their academic achievement, talking to their teachers and knowing what they are doing after school is a good start, he said. Raising healthy teens Parents should encourage their children to participate in extracurricular activities ''anything that occupies that person and promotes some kind of goal,'' Anderson said. Meaningful conversations about drugs and alcohol must begin at a young age, said Stuart, the high school district superintendent. And regardless of how trustworthy a child is, parents should set a curfew and always stay awake until the teen gets home at night, Stuart said.