My niece is only 14 years old she’ll be 15 in March. Everytime we go to the movies which is mostly every Saturday she walks around with her friends before and after the movie. While she’s with her friends she starts to smoke. She just started like 3 weeks ago. I’ve talked to her about it but she doesn’t listen. She tells me that “smoking once a week won’t hurt her”. Can anyone help me and let me know if there’s anything I can do or say that will make her stop smoking?? Also, the friends she hangs out with are not good influences for her. I’m sure she smokes because they do too. Either that or they tell her to. She pretty much does everything and anything her friends tell her to do. This one time she was about to have sex with some guy just because her friend told her to. Good thing she didn’t. At least I hope not. She trusts me a lot & she tells me a lot of things but I’m sure there are some things she keeps to herself. What can I do???
Answer:
once a week DOESN’T hurt her. please believe me…by the time she realizes its a mistake, she’ll still have plenty of time to live her life. You may think it’s the right thing now, but it seems she’s stuck on her idea and not giving it up, pushing her would make her hate you.
you can educate her, and try to take her to other places, besides movies, places she can’t be with the bad influences.
also…teach her good pretection methods, in case you can’t stop her from early sex.