DES MOINES, IA— The Century Council brought Ask, Listen, Learn:
Kids and Alcohol Don’t Mix to Hoyt Middle School, of Des Moines
Public Schools, today. The initiative is a program developed by
The Century Council in partnership with Nickelodeon – Ask,
Listen, Learn: Kids and Alcohol Don’t Mix – which recognizes
that the key to stopping underage drinking is communication
early and often between parents and children. Ask, Listen, Learn
provides both kids and parents with information and strategies
to help jumpstart the conversation about the dangers of underage
drinking, in a format and language designed specifically for
them. Congressman Leonard Boswell joined Principal Laura Kacer
and Shannon Adams of The Century Council at Hoyt Middle School
for this important presentation. “It’s important that parents
establish a dialogue with their children about the dangers of
underage drinking when they are in middle school,” Congressman
Boswell said. “Statistics bear this out, as well as the kids
themselves. Ask, Listen,