Non Violent Communication Can Help Your Child Stop Smoking

Mother was trying to get her son, who had been smoking for two years, to stop by telling him how horrible it was. Marshall: "Your objective is not to get him to stop... It's to help him find other ways of meeting whatever needs the smoking is meeting at less cost" When people feel that quality of understanding, then they're much more open to hearing other options. But if they think we have single mindedness of purpose to change them, that they feel they're being blamed for what they're doing, it makes change difficult.