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>>>Thats emulation not leadership.
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>>>If you want your kids to do positive things, and avoid negative things, and you set the example, they will emulate you. That's called leadership.
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>>>Do you think Mikes children are looking at his drinking problem and thinking "Thats a great way to go" I would say if they are intelligent they are more likely to go the other way and be teetotal
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>>>No, but I know many alchoholics or heavy drinkers who are who they are because their parents were drinkers. As you said, it emulation. But Mike has the power to help hids kids change through becoming a positive role model. That's leadership.
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>>Bad example
>>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325231805.htm
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>And there is there from the same year:
>http://www.drugrehabtreatment.com/parental-influences.html
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>Snippet:
>In a 2005 study done in Wales, children of heavy drinkers were found to "drink more frequently, more heavily, and more often alone" than children of parents without alcohol problems. Similar results occur with children of smokers.

Children of smokers "drink more frequently, more heavily, and more often alone"? Wow. :)