To have found it hilarious when my toddler pretended to smoke?

[MrsMaker]

I just caught her in the kitchen sitting on the chair with one leg crossed smoking an imaginary fag.

It's awful I now but it was really funny.

Seriously?

I don't think my toddler has ever seen anyone smoking.

Are you agrophobic?

agoraphobic even

I think Horton has made the real point of this thread: poor kid.

JuxaLOTmoreChocolate, ty for posting that. No one else will notice.

My DD pretended to smoke once when we were walking home from school (she'd been watching the teenagers and that gov ad where kids are copying their parents' smoking) - TBH we both laughed!

I agree with everyone saying that it's nothing to get worked up about.

The thing that I did pull her up on was that she put her sausage roll on the floor while she did it.

DunderMifflin

Was it a G*** sausage roll

onager

The age of disinformation is upon us

Not sure why that's a good thing, Dunder. I'd a hundred times rather my DD put a sausage roll down on the floor and then ate it than smoked or even pretended to. Germs are germs. Smoking is horrible. And I do smoke occasionally, so I'm not being holier than thou, just really sad that a child of this age thinks it's interesting or grown up or funny to smoke.

Thanks, slayerette.

Actually, I think I'll repeat the main point, just for the hell of it, y'know:

The interesting bit is the bit where they say they can't prove a link between exposure to SHS (second hand smoke) and a raised risk of contracting specific diseases.

You'd think people would be happy to hear they are not put at instant risk the minute they see a cigarette, wouldn't you?

Why poor kid? Just because he happened to see someone smoking? Oh dear me.

Anyway, lol at "I'm concerned it was found to be incredibly funny"

Children learn by copying.

Why do you think children of addicts frequently becom addicts themselves?

We did that as children, it's slightly funny.

NO big deal in my opinion, children like to pretend!

PS. If you make a big deal out of something it becomes all the more attractive!!!

I used to pretend to smoke breadsticks as a child. We found it hilarious. Mind you, my parents have never ever smoked. Nor have I ever seen them "drunk".

Bloody hell, when I was a kid you could buy sweet cigarettes, now if thats not encouraging pretend smoking then....something about a monkey

Many,many years now (OK about 7) ds1 came home from playschool pretending to smoke a crayon.

I have enver smoked, neither has dh and my parents (who did our childcare then) didn't either after having given up.

I watched, helped out for a bit and spotted that the playleaders would open the door and lean out to have a fag on a break.

I moved my ds's and never looked back.

Says all about what I think, tbh

The alcohol / gaf thing... someone once said to me 'fags are the only commercially available items that can kill you when used in the manner intended'

bang on, IMO

I used to smoke twigletts at school and we all pretended to be stoned although i didn't know what stoned was then

My eldest son does this sometimes and I don't find it funny at all. I use it as an opportunity to tell him that smoking is silly and smelly and bad for you and not something to even pretend to do.

I remember those sweet ciggies - not the white sticks, the PROPER ones - chocolate in edible paper in a really convincing fag packet!
I loved them! Used to pretend to smoke of course. Doesn't stop me lecturing ds though

My four year old rolls mine for me

He's better than I am!

Oh
holy
fuck.

desi!

FWIW imitating smoking, rolling a fag or shooting up would all be disiplined equally by me if I saw my kids doing it!

MrsMaker - Do you smoke yourself?
I truly think you are weird if you think a child doing this is funny.

i'm hoping you are a troll else why would you let your toddler be in a room where people are smoking?
are you mental?