Parental Drinking and Smoking Has Effect on Children and Discipline Methods

One study showed that parental drinking or smoking effects and even encourages your kids to do the same thing. Your children are a younger version of you. You should set a good example for your children and their health. You are responsible for their health and yours. You are responsible for taking care of them and sheltering them until they're old enough to move out. A good start to a healthy and successful life, is to have proper guidance, and to stay away from drugs, drinking and smoking. As drinking may not affect anyone else's health but yours, smoking effects everyone around you as much as it effects you.

Smoking and drinking also hurts your discipline methods. A kid will simply not take no for an answer. But when you're doing the same thing that you're disciplining them for, they'll try to use your faults for an excuse. This affects your discipline methods greatly. Because as a parent, you are to raise, and set a good example for your children. When your children see that you are doing the same thing, they'll think to themselves, "It's not wrong for me to do it, because mom/dad does it", "It won't hurt me, because mom/dad does it". They will try to blame it all on you, when really they have the choice to do right or wrong on their own. They simply need guidance.

How to prevent this:
Families need to start having more open relationships and closeness to avoid any drama such as this. 73% of Americans do not have a close relationship with their child, which leads to problems such as these bad habits. Children tend to want to keep their parents out of their business and their lives. A relationship such as this is not healthy for a child. When you're a teenager, you're still under your parents roof, and you follow their rules, until you're 18. Parents have a good idea of what they're talking about when it comes to disciplining their kids. But some parents are oblivious to some of the things their kids are involved in. In this generation, more teens are getting involved in parties, alcohol, smoking, marijuana, and drug use activity. It's the "Cool" thing to do nowadays for the teens.

If a parent drinks, it may tempt your children, and why: Another problem with parents smoking and drinking is that the children have easy access to alcoholic beverages, and cigarettes. After awhile of seeing mom and dad drink, they will want to take a sip of it and try it for themselves. Children, especially teenagers are very mischievous. They always think that parents are hiding the best from them, by disciplining them, and setting rules. But if parents didn't discipline and set rules, this society today would be more than out of hand. As your children grow and learn character traits such as responsibility, making their own choices, drawing a line between right and wrong, they will need your guidance and discipline to help them grow and learn correctly. What they learn, they will pass down to further generations in their family. Discipline is out of love. Mainly because parents want to shelter their kids from society today. It's very hard as a parent to do that nowadays, but it's completely possible (just very difficult). Your child just has to have a motivation to want to do the right thing, and proper guidance.

Talk to your child about the use of alcohol, drugs, and smoking. Tell them why it harms them, what it can do to you, what it can lead to, how it affects you, and how it affects everyone around you, etc.
Set a good example for your children, and take responsibility for you and your child's safety and health.

Most people who drink, do drugs, or smoke, regret it in the long run. Most smokers that I know have told me "Don't ever smoke". But why should I listen to them when they're the one's doing it? Because I know those are things that are not the right thing to do. But some people, can't make up their mind of what's wrong or what's right. Some, can't make their own choices, so others help make them. Some, think if they don't smoke then they won't fit in with the rest. And some think that if they do smoke, then they will fit in with the rest. 10 years from now, fitting in isn't going to matter anymore.

Make a good decision by not starting alcohol, smoking, or drugs at all. It will become an addiction and stay with you for the rest of your life, unless you seek out help, or get motivation to stop these habits. Many people don't seek out help and no matter how many times someone can tell a person how bad it's going to affect them, they'll keep doing it anyways until something drastic happens. That's what teenage mothers thought until they got pregnant. That's what alcohol addicts and smoking addicts thought before they got cancer. That's what drug addicts thought before they got memory loss. Or even worse, some don't get a second chance to make things right, and pass away. Anyone who makes a mistake in their life definitely wouldn't want others to follow their footsteps. As humans, we will all make mistakes, but what we can do to make things right again, is to learn from them. Learn from others mistakes. Think about why it's not a good idea to do the same thing.

Everyone at first has a choice to do things right, instead of wrong. It's harder to do right things than wrong, but when you do the wrong things, it can get pretty tough trying to set your life straight again. That's why you should just keep drugs and alcohol away from your lives completely, and not even start them at all. Life is not worth wasting it all away on these bad habits. Set a good example for your kids and others, and keep these habits out of your life completely. This will improve your health, family relationships, and save you money too.

Teens have so much potential, and have so much choice and opportunities to do anything with their life that they want to. They need to grasp these opportunities while they're still available. Instead of ruining their lives with drugs, smoking, and alcohol addictions. Many teenagers are sent to JUVI everyday for getting caught with marijuana, drug trafficking, or getting caught with underage drinking. The consequences get much worse than JUVI.

As a teen, you have a choice to make your decisions, or let someone else make them for you. As you go through life, no matter where you go- Christian school, public school, etc. There's many opportunities everywhere you go. Someone may offer you drugs, alcohol, or ask you to smoke with them. That's when responsibility and proper guidance should help you make your decision, and to make the right one for you.

These opportunities are the one's which will hurt you to take, and the opportunities that are better off left alone. These activities can do beyond more damage than you think it can. Whether it's physical damage, mental damage, health damage, memory loss, social problems, doing time, etc. The only way to prevent all of these is to not do these activities at all, to begin with. If you stay out of trouble, then you have nothing to worry about getting caught for in the long run.