Smoking in front of your children, right or wrong?

[mvdheuvel1983]

there's one of my uncle that smokes but whenever he sees me or any of my cousins coming he will hide the smoke, that is how an elderly person is supposed to do,  once you are in front of children hide it, if not you're gradually teaching them how to smoke.

Your uncle is not doing the right thing because he's always hiding something that you already saw him doing the best thing he should do I not to smoke around the house areas if he doesn't want you or any of your siblings to know about his smoking lifestyle. It is better you don't have an idea that he smokes than seeing him doing it one day you may decide to always hide to know how just he's been doing taste and that is how kids learn how to smoke. Kids are fast learners, parents should learn to hide whenever they do the things they don't want their children or kids around them to not to emulate it is between they don't even do such things.

[Gozie51]

Do you agree to this?

You have your point which is reasonable too but the thing about the point you raised is that these days people have changed with the way technology have also grown. Children are use to so many things now even without learning it from their parents or taught by their parents. It is not good though but what is now good or bad is relative to different people. Back in the days, the fathers don't smoke at home but today even in their bedrooms they smoke. Even alcohol has some phenomenon and this is why you see teenagers exhibiting different kinds of immoral behaviours. I think the culprit is the society which has metamorphose from a homogeneous society to heterogeneous one and you have mixed attitudes and behaviour currupting the weakest of the society. Children really need to be protected from vices that will push them into ways of living that is not what they can decide on at that early stage of their lives.

[Felicity_Tide]

Your uncle is not doing the right thing because he's always hiding something that you already saw him doing the best thing he should do I not to smoke around the house areas if he doesn't want you or any of your siblings to know about his smoking lifestyle. It is better you don't have an idea that he smokes than seeing him doing it one day you may decide to always hide to know how just he's been doing taste and that is how kids learn how to smoke. Kids are fast learners, parents should learn to hide whenever they do the things they don't want their children or kids around them to not to emulate it is between they don't even do such things.

You have a point, because a lot of people don't know the vacuum that is being created when these kids eventually found out that their dad smokes. Just imagine if you find out that a very quiet and well mannered dude in your neighborhood is actually into things you never thought of him, that alone can create a vacuum, which a lot of children might eventually struggle to handle because they aren't matured enough. I would prefer that parents should smoke very far away_{(not even around their premises)}, if they truly want to set a false standards that can at least keep the children away from such lifestyle.

[bakasabo]

there's one of my uncle that smokes but whenever he sees me or any of my cousins coming he will hide the smoke, that is how an elderly person is supposed to do,  once you are in front of children hide it, if not you're gradually teaching them how to smoke.

Your uncle is not doing the right thing because he's always hiding something that you already saw him doing the best thing he should do I not to smoke around the house areas if he doesn't want you or any of your siblings to know about his smoking lifestyle. It is better you don't have an idea that he smokes than seeing him doing it one day you may decide to always hide to know how just he's been doing taste and that is how kids learn how to smoke. Kids are fast learners, parents should learn to hide whenever they do the things they don't want their children or kids around them to not to emulate it is between they don't even do such things.

That is a good question btw. I saw numerous times that parents hide fact that they smoke, while their children know what smoking is and already saw parents smoking. Why do parents do that? Because they are shy or dont know how to explain to children their need to do things that they previously described as bad and forbid doing? I am sure that even if a child tries smoking, taste of a cigarette and burn in lungs and throat will prevent from continuing smoking. Child will start to smoke only to look cool and to impress his friends. If parents manage to teach that there are other ways to impress people, then it is a little safe from childs start of smoking.