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Youth Smoking Prevention
Activity - Finding Common Ground

Here’s an exercise that can help you start talking to your kids about the issues they’re facing and the rules and values you set for your family.

Answer the questions below in one of the sets of boxes. Then, cover up your answers and ask your teen to answer in the other set of boxes. Share your answers. Where do you agree, and why? Where do you disagree, and why? Talk about your house rules and why you set them, and talk about the consequences for breaking them. This is a great way to begin some powerful conversations. And a good way for each of you to share the reasons behind your beliefs and opinions.

Please note your responses are for you and your teen, this website will not retain your selections.

# Parent's Answers: Should teens be allowed to... Always Sometimes Never
1. Sneak into an R-rated movie?
2. Tease younger kids?
3. Cheat at cards?
4. Shave their heads?
5. Try smoking cigarettes?
6. Hang out with kids their parents don't know?
7. Pretend to be an adult in an Internet chat room?
8. Kiss a boyfriend or girlfriend?
9. Spray-paint their initials on walls?
10. Be sexually active?
11. Swear in public?
12. Drink beer at a party?
13. Play M-rated video games?
14. Become a vegetarian, even when nobody else in the family is one?
15. Talk back to a teacher?
16. Get a tattoo?
17. Tell a friend she looks great when she doesn't?
18. Copy part of a school paper from the Internet?
19. Get a navel ring?
20. Get into a car whose driver has been drinking?
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Text in this section from: Raising kids who don't smoke (2005)

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