How true is this statement in reference to parenting skills?
I used to hear this a lot when I was younger, but I never really understood until I was on the other side of it. Today I witnessed it from my sister.
My sister is a smoker. She has smoked since she was about
14 years old. She has tried to quit, quit for a short period of time, but has never conquered the bad habit. My mother smokes, and my other sister smokes. I used to smoke but I quit 3 years ago.....
Today as we were pulling in the driveway of my mothers home, we noticed our nephew, who is
14 years old, smoking a cigarette. I knew he was smoking because his mom had said something previous about him stealing her cigs, and then about a week ago I found him outside with my niece, who is very athletic, doesn't smoke....it would tear her lungs up. Anyway, he was smoking a black n mild (which is what I used to smoke, that's how I recognized it) he denied it up an down. He has asthma, and has no business doing that to his body, he knows what it feels like to suffer from an asthma attack, and as my sister asked him if he wanted to go back to the hospital for an asthma attack, I thought to myself, "How can you chastise/punish someone for doing something that you do on a daily basis like its nothing." Her argument can be that she is grown, but what makes the situation any better, or why should he listen to her while shes doing the same thing?
Now I'm not saying go head nephew...smoke all you want. I just want to know how can you teach someone not to do something when that's all they've been around? And that applies in so many areas other than smoking.
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