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For the smoking issue, at first I tried so hard to prevent the kids from smiking. What I found was that it only encouraged them to be sneaky about it. My policy became: 1. I would not help them get cigarettes. 2. They had to smoke outside and put the cigarettes in the locked medicine cabinet, so the little ones couldn't get them. 3. They could not smoke in front of the little ones, nor encourage them to smoke. They all agreed and smoking really became a non-issue. As far as the getting up for school; going to school was a condition of their probation. This was not a choice. I only had one kid refuse to get up. It was a struggle to get him up, finally I quit fighting with him and when the bus left and he was still in bed, I called the PO. PO came and picked him up in handcuffs and took him to school. After the third time he was sent to a detention facility. It really is the jpo's job to enforce the probation conditions.
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