Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is exactly what happens when men don't spend enough time with their boys. We divorced when my son was 14. From day 1 I decided that I'll talk to my son every single day post divorce. We were already closed. We talked a lot. We talked talked talked. We traveled together. Let me tell you it made a huge difference. He My son turned to be a great kid. Raising a boy is not easy.
+1. This is really important. Men who didn't end up in trouble later in life are the ones that spent a lot of time with dad. A lot killers, rapists, bandits, thieves etc were raised by single moms. Dad must be involved.
Anonymous wrote:This is exactly what happens when men don't spend enough time with their boys. We divorced when my son was 14. From day 1 I decided that I'll talk to my son every single day post divorce. We were already closed. We talked a lot. We talked talked talked. We traveled together. Let me tell you it made a huge difference. He My son turned to be a great kid. Raising a boy is not easy.
Anonymous wrote:This is exactly what happens when men don't spend enough time with their boys. We divorced when my son was 14. From day 1 I decided that I'll talk to my son every single day post divorce. We were already closed. We talked a lot. We talked talked talked. We traveled together. Let me tell you it made a huge difference. He My son turned to be a great kid. Raising a boy is not easy.
Anonymous wrote:“I don’t care what your mother says, it’s not okay, it’s a trashy habit and it will impact you for the rest of your life.”
Follow up with testing. It’s hard to quit.
Anonymous wrote:Beat him within an inch of his life.
Or maybe lock him a closet and tell him he can't come out until he has smoked an entire carton.
Anonymous wrote:My son started smoking in HS. Much as I hated it, nothing convinced him to stop. Not even his doctor. I actually can’t imagine the doctor visit working for many teens.
Anyway, fast forward a few years and he decided he wants to stop. I cannot tell you how difficult that was for him (and the rest of us who had to put up with him while he was working on it). He ended up using an OTC aid, which was quite expensive and it took a long time but he did it.
I’m sharing because people think it will be easy for a kid to quit but that wasn’t our experience.
Anonymous wrote:Beat him within an inch of his life.
Or maybe lock him a closet and tell him he can't come out until he has smoked an entire carton.
Anonymous wrote:I feel like I'm being pranked here.
My 14 year old son was caught with a pack of Camels about a month ago and I had a long conversation with him how absolutely idiotic this habit is. I told him he needs to stop now before he gets addicted. I explained the whole waste of money aspect, the cancer thing, all of it. He agreed to stop.
This weekend a neighbor told me he saw my son at his high school's baseball game and my son and two friends were smoking.
I told him all this and he confessed that he was smoking........ but his mother told him it was OK to do this while young.
I went upstairs and asked my wife about it and she said "Yeah, I did, whats the big deal?"
I responded with something like are you out of your frigging mind and she accused me of overreacting.
This is insane, right?
Anonymous wrote:I feel like I'm being pranked here.
My 14 year old son was caught with a pack of Camels about a month ago and I had a long conversation with him how absolutely idiotic this habit is. I told him he needs to stop now before he gets addicted. I explained the whole waste of money aspect, the cancer thing, all of it. He agreed to stop.
This weekend a neighbor told me he saw my son at his high school's baseball game and my son and two friends were smoking.
I told him all this and he confessed that he was smoking........ but his mother told him it was OK to do this while young.
I went upstairs and asked my wife about it and she said "Yeah, I did, whats the big deal?"
I responded with something like are you out of your frigging mind and she accused me of overreacting.
This is insane, right?