当你的孩子吸电子烟时，父母该怎么办?

当你的孩子吸电子烟时，父母该怎么办?

When Sonya Kennedy learned that her 12-year-old son, Ryder, had tried vaping, she was "mortified."

当索尼娅·肯尼迪(Sonya Kennedy)得知她12岁的儿子莱德(Ryder)曾尝试吸电子烟时，她“感到羞愧”。

"He honestly didn't think that there was anything wrong," Kennedy said. "He told me that almost all the grade-sevens were doing it."

肯尼迪说:“老实说，他并不认为有什么不对。“他告诉我，几乎所有七年级的学生都在做这件事。”

And she soon realized that the trend had reached many more kids in her orbit: Kennedy, who owns a dance studio in Northern California, found that most of her dancers had tried vaping, too. She learned that kids were vaping at school, taking puffs inside their shirts and in some cases charging their e-cigarettes in their teacher's own computer, she said.

她很快意识到，这股潮流已经影响到她身边更多的孩子:肯尼迪在加州北部拥有一家舞蹈工作室，她发现她的大多数舞者也尝试过吸电子烟。她说，她了解到孩子们在学校里吸电子烟，在衬衫里吸气，有时还用老师自己的电脑给电子烟充电。

Meanwhile, many parents seemed oblivious.

与此同时，许多家长似乎对此毫不在意。

"It's a bad habit that I started realizing parents didn't know about," she said.

“这是个坏习惯，我开始意识到父母并不知道，”她说。

Health experts say parents whose kids are vaping often don't know what to do or where to turn for help.

健康专家表示，孩子吸电子烟的父母往往不知道该做什么，也不知道去哪里寻求帮助。

While federal authorities grapple with how to regulate e-cigarettes on a broad scale and while leading tobacco company Altria invests billions in e-cigarette maker Juul, parents are scrambling at home to deal with nicotine dependence -- or to prevent their kids from getting hooked on something that's ubiquitous at many schools. Some are even approaching addiction rehab programs in hopes of weaning their kids off these products.

联邦当局正在努力解决如何大规模监管电子烟的问题，而领先的烟草公司奥驰亚(Altria)在电子烟制造商Juul上投入了数十亿美元，与此同时，家长们却在家里争先恐后地应对尼古丁依赖-或者防止他们的孩子沉迷于许多学校无处不在的东西。一些人甚至接近上瘾康复计划，希望让他们的孩子戒掉这些产品。

"It's all over social media," Kennedy said, and popular among star athletes in her community.

“社交媒体上到处都是，”肯尼迪说，在她所在社区的明星运动员中很受欢迎。

As a mother, Kennedy said, she understands the role that peer pressure can play with fads like e-cigarettes. And as the mother of an athlete -- Ryder is an avid football and basketball player -- Kennedy said she knew that she had to do something. So she asked a local business to print a few T-shirts with a straightforward message: "Athletes don't vape." She didn't know that it would catch on.

肯尼迪说，作为一名母亲，她理解同龄人压力对电子烟等时尚所起的作用。作为一名运动员的母亲-莱德是一名狂热的足球和篮球运动员-肯尼迪说，她知道她必须做些什么。因此，她要求当地一家企业印制几件T恤，上面写着一条直截了当的信息：“运动员不会吸电子烟。”她不知道它会流行起来。

Ryder called his mother the first day he wore the shirt to school, saying that some of his friends wanted their own. Kennedy also shared photos of the shirt on Facebook and received requests from people in Los Angeles, Sacramento and Canada who wanted in on the positive message. She even invited local athletes to a photo shoot and posted the results on social media -- and they actually showed up on a Sunday morning, to her surprise.

莱德穿着这件衬衫上学的第一天就给妈妈打了电话，说他的一些朋友想要自己的。肯尼迪还在脸书上分享了这件t恤的照片，并收到了来自洛杉矶、萨克拉门托和加拿大的一些人的请求，他们希望看到这件衬衫传达的积极信息。她甚至邀请当地运动员来拍照，并将结果发布在社交媒体上——令她惊讶的是，他们竟然在周日早上出现了。

"The response of the kids was what blew my mind," Kennedy said.

“孩子们的反应让我大吃一惊，”肯尼迪说。

Well over 500 shirts have been printed, she said; most have been given away in conjunction with Ryder's middle school and Kennedy's dance company, and others continue to be sold at cost. Kennedy said her goal is to share a positive message and raise awareness among kids and parents alike.

她说，已经印了五百多件衬衫;其中大部分是与莱德中学和肯尼迪舞蹈公司联合捐赠的，其他的仍在按成价出售。肯尼迪说，她的目标是分享一个积极的信息，提高孩子和家长的意识。

"It can be frightening for some parents [and] anxiety-provoking for parents to realize that their kids are vaping," said Pat Aussem, a master addictions counselor with the Parent Coaching Program at the nonprofit Partnership for Drug-Free Kids.

帕特·奥西姆(Pat Aussem)是“无药儿童伙伴关系”(Partnership for drug free kids)家长辅导项目的一名成瘾专家顾问，他说:“对一些家长来说，意识到孩子在吸电子烟可能会让他们感到害怕，让家长感到焦虑。