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Actually all these things should be done around 10 or 11 to keep kids from starting in the first place.
We started when they were about four. With the punishment explained to them in great deal. (I've mentioned this before.) And the voice used left them no doubt as to our seriousness. None.
"Mommy, what's that man doing?"
"SMOKING!! WHICH WE DO NOT DO IN OUR FAMILY. EVER. YOUR FATHER AND I FIND OUT THAT YOU'VE SMOKED AND YOU ARE EATING THE WHOLE PACK!!"
I may have smoked one pack of cigarettes in my entire life, largely or wholly as a teenager. I recall one try each of chewing tobacco and snuff. I tried a cigar a couple of times. No one told me not to do it because everyone smoked at the time including my parents. Tobacco wasn't forbidden fruit, so there was no excitement. It was the same with alcohol; it was never forbidden fruit. I probably have the equivalent of a bottle of spirits per year or less. Young people seek what is denied them because they are young.
I may have smoked one pack of cigarettes in my entire life, largely or wholly as a teenager. I recall one try each of chewing tobacco and snuff. I tried a cigar a couple of times. No one told me not to do it because everyone smoked at the time including my parents. Tobacco wasn't forbidden fruit, so there was no excitement. It was the same with alcohol; it was never forbidden fruit. I probably have the equivalent of a bottle of spirits per year or less. Young people seek what is denied them because they are young.
I can understand that.
Both my parents smoked. So as a teen I tried it with friends, and like I stated in another post, I had a few Marlboros here and there. But I just didn't really find anything important about smoking. It to me just got in the way of things...It was just a bother to me.
I used to hate when the parent would say, Ok after this cigaret I will...(whatever) ugh, that line got so tired. I swore I would never become that kind of parent.....
So smoking and drinking were not a big No- no in my family....and me and my sister don't do either......
I don't believe in the beating a child for it, or making them smoke a whole pack. that is disgusting ugh........
I believe just real education of dangers of smoking and why you would not like your child to start this gross habit should be enough.
Yes i'm a single Parent themy son's mother died when he was 5.
He's a well behaved boy hardly miss behaved. I give him $80 a week.
We were at the shopping center in Brisbane Australia we went our differernt ways and I saw him going to the cineams with his friends and i saw him with a smoke.
But i have NO idea what to do. can you help me
$80.00 a week. WOW! At the age of 14 he gets $80.00 a week? What is the cost of living in Australia? With that much money he could probably afford a bag of weed and a carton of cigarettes.
Do you know how he spends his money? Get reciepts?
There may not be much you can do about his smoking, but I would let him know you saw him. Tell him you care about him and that you disapprove of his behavior. Tell him you love him and ask him if he would like to quit. I don't know if it will work, but being a clueless parent only makes you look stupid and may lose you some respect points.
My son started smoking about this age and all the lectures didn't help. I stopped giving him money, but he still seemed able to get cigarettes.
$80.00 a week. WOW! At the age of 14 he gets $80.00 a week? What is the cost of living in Australia? With that much money he could probably afford a bag of weed and a carton of cigarettes.
Do you know how he spends his money? Get reciepts?
There may not be much you can do about his smoking, but I would let him know you saw him. Tell him you care about him and that you disapprove of his behavior. Tell him you love him and ask him if he would like to quit. I don't know if it will work, but being a clueless parent only makes you look stupid and may lose you some respect points.
My son started smoking about this age and all the lectures didn't help. I stopped giving him money, but he still seemed able to get cigarettes.
I think in australia the country gives kids a state sponsored allowance but i could be wrong.
I've building a time machine *out of a delorean oddly enough* so i can go back in time and make my parents move there. That would have been really sweet .
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