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October is Crime Prevention Month. Click here to learn more about what your pack or troop can do to celebrate and teach Crime Prevention.

Fire Prevention Week is October 3rd thur October 9th. The National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) has a wealth of information on their site about ways you can celebrate this week and how you can do your part to prevent fires.

By now you probably know that drugs and alcohol present an insidious threat to your children. But did you know that you are the crucial element in preventing your children from suffering the harm that substance abuse can bring? Healthy communication at home is the best means of setting your children down the path to a promising future free of alcohol and drug abuse.

If I were teaching this material to a roomful of parents, this is the point where I would expect a voice to pipe up in about the sixth row. "Excuse me," the voice would say. "I get what you've been saying, but I have a question: How do I get started in talking with my children about drugs and alcohol?"

And that would be a very good question.

Read the rest of this article from Focus on The Family.