Kids friends smoking....

Hanna
Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:45:38 +0000

no honest person believes that you should punish a child for smoking as harshly as you would punish a child for doing heroin.



It’s not about punishment. It’s about modifying the behavior. They both cross a line into what cannot be tolerated in my house. The behavior has to stop immediately. If the same type of consequence eliminates both behaviors – and it does – then the same response is appropriate.

None of my high school friends’ parents even came close to responding properly. The only parent I know who demanded results was my former boss, and it worked like a charm, overnight.