How can parents protect their children from schoolies week dangers?

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A friend of mine commented last week that parents should not allow their children to go to the Gold Coast for schoolies week.

While I understand the point they were making, my reply to them was that once your children finish their HSC it is more than a little bit late to start exerting your parental influence over their decisions and actions.

In the early 2000’s I was executive director of a national drug education organisation.  We worked closely with other similar organisations around the world who took similar successful approaches helping parents over a lifetime of their children’s education and decision making.

In that time I coined a term pre-emptive prevention.

You can encourage someone to take drugs around friends so if something bad happens their friends will call an ambulance.  But That isn’t really prevention.  That is a drug use management tactic the government call harm reduction.

Pre-emptive prevention is about a lifetime of raising young people to have no desire to abuse their mind or their body with harmful, dangerous or addictive substances.

Pre-emptive prevention is an approach that families and communities use very effectively worldwide in many countries, what about here in Australia?

Turn It Up.

I’m Michael Robinson

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I've known them for a long time and always been impressed by them. 
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We can service but not limited to, Blocked Drains, Hot Water systems, Water Leaks, Gas Services, Cistern Repairs, Gas Heaters, Sewage, water tanks, pumps, Industrial Plant Maintenance, thermostatic mixing valves, backflow prevention control devices, storm water pump systems. We can also provide Installation and servicing of brands such as Zip, Rheem, Billi, Quadra, Trio and other units. Our Plumbers also provide Commercial Plumber maintenance service..

Bush requires back burning prevention

Governments with their structures, resources and focus are, for the most part, ready and able to jump into a crisis management role and we've seen that in the floods of late. Of course some governments do crisis management responses better than others. While some of us could cope with a major regional disaster for a day or two - disaster and survival experts suggest we should all prepare our homes and supplies to ensure we are prepared to sustain ourselves for at least 8 weeks if a major disaster event should occur.

The difference of this sort of preparation of course is comparing the crisis management of disaster response to the proactive preparation that can be undertaken.

I was reminded yesterday that we haven't seen many bush fires for a while and that is a good thing but there is one aspect of that, however, that is a warning signal – our governments are slipping up on the prevention side of bush fire management.

After the Canberra and in Victoria bush fire disasters, the inquiries found that it was essential to do regular - preventative - back burning every few years in order to reduce the fuel load so that devastating bush fires do not occur.

So you'd expect that our governments would make pre-emptive and preventative fire-load-reduction-burn-offs a priority and allow people to do back burning, .....Turn It Up.

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Bow Bow Plumbing brings a work ethic to the job that we need
more of in the business world.

If you have need for a commercial plumber, check him out.

http://www.bowbowingplumbing.com.au/

Commercial Plumber - Service List 
We can service but not limited to, Blocked Drains, Hot Water systems, Water Leaks, Gas Services, Cistern Repairs, Gas Heaters, Sewage, water tanks, pumps, Industrial Plant Maintenance, thermostatic mixing valves, backflow prevention control devices, storm water pump systems. We can also provide Installation and servicing of brands such as Zip, Rheem, Billi, Quadra, Trio and other units. Our Plumbers also provide Commercial Plumber maintenance service..
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