By Kevin Stoda
Yesterday, I was introduced to the story of the 2-year old Indonesian boy who has a two-pack a day cigarette habit because his father introduced him to smoking at an early age. His father says that the boy started his habit when he was 18 months old. Everyone seems to have had something to say about this story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmv7YHFB-N8&feature=related
Naturally, all this YouTube publicity has created a bad image for all parents in the boys country and has also tarnished the national image of Indonesia. The Indonesian government has stated that it is discouraging the parents from allowing the boy to continue smoking. The parents note that the boy cries in pain when he doesn't get his fix.
On YouTube a lot of people have been interviewed and spoken out against the boys parents allowing and encouraging the boy to smoke. (The father claimed that he introduced the boy to the habit because the boy had had pain from a hernia.) Now the boy must smoke up to 40 cigarettes a day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNDpWp6Fz7I&NR=1
KNOWING ONES LIMITS
According to many educators, "a CHILD gains satisfaction only when HE experiences the limits to his desires, freedoms, and wants." In other words, children will never really be happy until they do not have NOR RECEIVE every wish fulfilled immediately. In this, a young child or maturing adult (a) learns to be patient, (b) learns to be disciplined in their demands, or simply (3) learns how to wait for (or work on) enfolding of new circumstances.
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