Ida Louise Jackson Quotes

We have found that equivocation by the parents has contributed to eventual drug experimentation

Honesty remains the best policy. If parents use alcohol in moderation in front of young children, that provides the right model. Drug use is more complex because even moderate use can have unforeseen consequences.

Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

Drugs scared me.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.