1. To provide adult supervision for all children/teens visiting my home.
2. To provide a secure storage place for all forms of tobacco, alcohol, drugs and other potentially hazardous items.
3. To not allow parties or gatherings in my home when I/we are not present
4. To not serve, nor will/we allow youth under the legal age (21) to smoke tobacco, consume alcohol, taking drugs, or hazardous substances in my home or on my property.
5. If possible, arrange to have your children/teens looked after and engaged from three to five p.m. Encourage them to get involved with youth groups, arts, music, sports, community service and academic clubs.
6. Make sure children who are unattended for periods during the day feel your presence. Give them a schedule and set limits on their behavior. Give them household chores to accomplish. Enforce a strict phone-in-to-you policy. Leave notes for them around the house. Provide easy-to-find snacks.
7. Get to know the parents of your child's friends. Exchange phone numbers and addresses. Have everyone agree to forbid each other’s children from consuming alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in their homes, and pledge that you will inform each other if one of you becomes aware of a child who violates this pact.
8. Call parents whose home is to be used for a party. Make sure they can assure you that no alcoholic beverages or illegal substances will be dispensed. Don't be afraid to check out the party yourself to see that adult supervision is in place.
9. Make it easy for your child to leave a place where substances are being used. Discuss in advance how to contact you or another designated adult in order to get a ride home. If another adult provides the transportation, be up and available to talk about the incident when your child arrives home.
10. Set curfews and enforce them. Weekend curfews might range from 9 p.m. for a fifth-grader to 12:30 a.m. for a senior in high school.
11. Encourage open dialogue with your children about their experiences. Tell your child, "I love you and trust you, but I don't trust the world around you, and I need to know what's going on in your life so I can be a good parent to you."
12. Talk with any Just Wait Teen parent of a teenager they personally observe using alcohol or drugs.

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