My CHILDREN!
I don't have any children except for my son who lives far away and I see him once a year.
Arwen is my puppy, and maybe she is like my kid. She is a glorious white toy poodle and got me started quitting smoking after many many reasons, good reasons, failed to work.
Arwen would find my cigarettes, take each one of the pack hold it in her mouth and break it with her paw. Then she would methodically take out another, hold it in her mouth and break it with her paw, each one until they were all broken. Then she would get up on her hind legs and dance around like she did something wonderful.
It made me stop and think that my cough had gotten just terrible. I would cough up a half cup of phlegm every morning. And my partner had to have his surgery delayed for three months because he had such bad circulation in his legs from smoking. All kind of bad things were happening to me, but there was Arwen, breaking up all those cigarettes, so happy about it, so proud of herself.