If you do not pre-judge your teenagers behaviour as "stupid" or "wrong", they're more likely to open up and explain why their actions made sense to them.
As a child grows older, their peers will play a bigger role in their life. Friends can influence everything, it's important to remember that peer pressure can have both negative and positive impacts so it’s important to be prepare and able to spot signs of peer pressure
Curiosity at times can be "the problem" to making a person dependent on substance. And then ultimately an excuse to more consumption and abuse. The more you use the less you live!!
Yesterday we had a meeting of SAATHI and have now pivoted to looking into the causes of mental health issues in #Sikkim. It is frightening to see how numbers have climbed post Covid Our schools' project has been stopped for reasons we can share later. @UNODC
See you around.