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Helping Your Child Stop Smoking |
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You need to find solutions to teen-age
problems, very fast. This generation is in a hurry. They have no time to
pause and ponder. Being young, impressionable minds, they are easily
carried away. They want quick rewards, efforts or no efforts. For every
question, the youngsters have a counter-question. As a matter of course,
this generation picks up bad habits. Smoking is one such serious habit,
which needs to be checked well in time.
To help
your child stop smoking is your parental responsibility. Do not show any
latitude on this count.
Teenage smoking has been increasing at a
phenomenal rate for the last few decades. The reasons may be many, but
if the elder members in a family smoke, you can hardly do anything
morally about smoking.
This negative tendency is also given
additional fillip by advertisements in TV, newspapers, and calculated
encouragement by the tobacco manufacturers. This habit has assumed
alarming proportions in the college-going youngsters.
The father
and mother alone can not help the teenage child. His social environment
also compulsively influences him. So, they need to be provided with
helpful resources for identifying remedy for their compulsive smoking
addiction.
Educating the teenagers on compulsive smoking
addiction, should be a part of the school syllabus. There are many stop
smoking centers, run by private individuals or voluntary organizations.
Provide your son with their telephone number, and if necessary take them
along you, a couple of times.
There is another danger about
smoking. Smoking is just the first step of the ladder of a series of
destructive habits. The child, after taking course to smoking, may
indulge in self-destructive behavior and neglect studies.
Notice these early warnings and your child's changed behavior, to
take corrective measures immediately.
The
future of the family depends upon the children. It is your duty to give
them good education and a solid foundation as for their moral and
ethical values.
Children generally take to habits like smoking
because of a lack of communication between the
members of the family and
the children. You will be the party to their moral doom, and ethical
disaster unless you do something tangible, well in time.
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