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When a toddler starts to take those
first steps, OH BOY! They are difficult. The left foot gets caught
behind the right foot then the right foot gets caught behind the left, the
knees bend like jelly and Ooops! Down goes the little feller! You
don't show the little tyke how to make the same mistake or praise
them for their error and then take them out into a busy intersection
and let them cross! You take time, you teach them the correct way to
walk. You drill them. Have them walk slow then faster and
faster and then soon they are running. Then one day, after they've
crossed those roads many times with you guiding them, it'll be time they
hit those busy intersections on their own. They'll be prepared, so that
when someone comes up to them and starts showing them how to get that one
foot caught behind the other, they'll frown with a sideways glance and
say: "BEAT IT BOZO!" And they'll continue walking the right
way! They won't even stop to think that they mastered those
steps.
Of course, if we never taught them to
walk at all, they'd learn alright. They get help from the
"Bozo" with the two left feet.

The choice is
clear... either we teach our kids the RIGHT way to use drugs or someone
else is going to teach them the WRONG way to abuse drugs.
Which way would you rather it be? Up until now, the only thing we've
been teaching them is not to use them or how to abuse them.
Now, does that make
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