Interviewer: What are some of the difficulties you face as a parent of children with asthma?

Mother: As a parent, I think changing your lifestyle: not being around individuals who smoke. You can control what goes on in your home-we have a no shoe policy. We can control where we live, now that we're finally in healthy housing. That's another thing that we had to change: our way of living, and how we live, and where we live. Because that's very important when you have children who are asthmatics-the carpeting, the mold. When you go over a friend's house you can't say, "Well so-and-so's coming in with that cigarette and my kids are allergic; they can't be around cigarette smoke," and we find people go outside and smoke and come inside but it comes in with them. So as a parent, I find that I actually had to seclude myself from certain situations and friends because of my children's health condition.