subject: Are You Setting A Good Example For Your Children By Cigarette Smoking? [print this page] Think you're a good parent? Do you set a good example and understand that with regards to the learning habits of many younger kids, what they see is exactly what they can do? We might care to feel as if we set good examples and bring up our kids correctly. Yet whilst we would be careful to teach them pleasantness and the ways to behave in polite society, if they ever see us lighting up a cigarette as a part of an apparently habitual regime, what do you think they're going to do after they mature?
Many parents who're also smokers are secretly worried their children also will turn out to be smokers themselves. They already know that there is a certain amount of pressure from peers involved in the social situations they might come across as they mature and that this could be how they, themselves, were shown smoking cigarettes during their youth. They ought to be clearly aware that their children are even more likely to pick-up that first cigarette in a very social situation when it were "okay" for many years at home.
Setting an example is crucial, however, if you are looking at the act of smoking even tho it's a life or death situation. As being an adult you may be well aware of the potential risks and still have seen, maybe first-hand through others, exactly what can happen in case you're defeated with any attempts at quitting smoking. You're duty-bound to dissuade your sons or daughters from taking on the habit, but this is after all destined to be very difficult to do if you're still doing it yourself. It's actually a question of saying one thing and doing another, which is hardly the way to set a good example, after all.
Quite apart from setting an example, children who are forced to grow up in a home where smoking is rampant are far more likely to develop illnesses themselves as a direct result of second-hand smoke inhalation. If you smoked as a mother when you were pregnant then your child may go on to develop illnesses as a consequence of that gestation. Did you know that a young child can develop asthma if the mother smoked when she was pregnant? If you see a lot of infections, colds and breathing problems in children, should you be surprised if one or both parents actually smoke? Perhaps even more disturbing is the fact that the still under explained syndrome known as SIDS has been linked to second-hand smoke.
As a parent, it's past time to pontificate. You know that you have to quit smoking not only for your own good but for the future of your family, as well. Once you're able to stop smoking you will be able to plan ahead for the future. Until that time though you know, deep down inside, that you are not doing the best for your offspring and that you are, directly or indirectly contributing to issues which they're going to have to deal with in later life, too.
by: Douglass Grahame
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