Giving Children Tobacco

This morning Danny and I engaged in a very interesting conversation. He wanted to know about tobacco. I proceeded to tell him about how it is bad because it is not only addicting, but that it can give people mouth cancer. To make my point, I gave a nice little description of how nasty that can be and what it can look like. He was looking really concerned, and I thought about how I love the fact that he is very sensitive to that sort of thing. I asked him where he heard of it and why he was asking. "Well," he said, in a rather concerned tone, "Dad said that he was going to put that in my mouth if I keep talking mean to Rebekah!" I could see the questions flashing in his eyes - Why would dad put something in my mouth that would give me cancer? "Either that or soap."

"Oh Danny," I said, "Dad was talking about TOBASCO!!!"