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Parenting Tip # 193

Research has shown that when a parent smokes, it?s more likely the child will smoke. The good news is that when a parent stops smoking, the child will also imitate that behavior. Kicking the habit could improve the health of everyone in your family!

Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years
Copyright 1998 by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.