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I think we as parents have the responsibility to teach our children all the reasons not to participate in drugs, sex and alchol, drugs and alcohol can mess up your brain and ruin your life and sex is a great thing but can be turned into something bad. We, in my home are teaching our children that sex before marriage is wrong and should be saved til you fall in love and marry, save yourselves for the best, and especially having multiple partners can harm your body and even give you low self esteem. It is worth waiting for. Also our children need to know that we all make mistakes but with those mistakes comes consequences and we need to own up to our own mistakes and consequences, I want my children to know that they can trust me and their father and though we may get dissappointed at times, that is just a part of life but it is imporant to have boundaries and for parents to stick with them and we need to set good examples for them, if we are teaching them that drugs and alcohol is wrong then we should not be doing them either. Children live what they learn.