Hi, all
my son who is 16 confessed last night to smoking, after lot of prompting from me and ds, I was shocked and very disappointed, I wasn't cross just very sad.
Mild mannered child, very good student, never really too much trouble of any sort with him, it genuinely came as shock to us. As he was telling us about it last night he was upset and crying and I was crying with him, this a child that doesn't do crying, so I new it hit him hard. He says it had only taken place three times, that he didn't like it and felt under pressure to do it.
He was offered cigarette by one of the boys form his year, just before the exams started, outside of school and in his words" Everybody was doing it", apparently they kept at him until he succumbed. I am very upset even writing about it now, I have tears streaming down my face, I can barely see.
I don't want him to become a smoker and ruin his health, please anybody any input is appreciated.
How did you handle it?
What did you say?
Did it have any effect?
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strictlovingmum · 30/06/2011 09:17
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