Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: July 29, 2025, 1:11 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Drinking Education
#1
Drinking Education
I have a daughter going off to college next fall. The drinking age is 21, but I remember college well enough to be pretty sure that being 18 won't be a barrier to drinking.

The thing is this. My parents drank at home and they let me try just about everything, so I had a pretty good idea about martinis, daiquiris, margaritas, rum and coke, mai tais, whiskey, brandy, scotch, wine, and beer from experience when I left home. I observed that the kids who had real trouble with liquor their first year in school were the ones trying alcohol for the first time.

My husband does not drink and I have wine and beer mostly with occasional spiked coffee in the winter. I've let the girls sip and mostly a sip is all they've wanted. The question is whether I should give my daughter a kind of tour of the hard stuff so she really knows how little it takes and how it can be disguised in various drinks. No, the idea is not to get her drunk, just educate her a little before she learns the hard way.

Good idea? Bad idea? Suggestions for how to go about it?

[I'm not sure where to put this topic, and if the mods think it's better elsewhere please move it.]
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
Drinking Education - by Jenny A - December 28, 2014 at 12:38 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Aractus - December 28, 2014 at 12:47 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Jenny A - December 28, 2014 at 12:55 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Aractus - December 28, 2014 at 2:06 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Jenny A - December 28, 2014 at 2:30 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Aractus - December 28, 2014 at 2:41 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Jenny A - December 28, 2014 at 2:55 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Thumpalumpacus - December 28, 2014 at 11:36 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Elskidor - December 28, 2014 at 2:47 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Aoi Magi - December 28, 2014 at 12:49 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Elskidor - December 28, 2014 at 1:03 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Surgenator - December 28, 2014 at 1:33 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Exian - December 28, 2014 at 1:42 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Thumpalumpacus - December 28, 2014 at 2:06 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Alex K - December 28, 2014 at 3:50 am
RE: Drinking Education - by bennyboy - December 28, 2014 at 6:50 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Jenny A - December 28, 2014 at 12:21 pm
RE: Drinking Education - by abaris - December 28, 2014 at 12:38 pm
RE: Drinking Education - by bennyboy - December 28, 2014 at 1:51 pm
RE: Drinking Education - by Exian - December 28, 2014 at 7:58 am
RE: Drinking Education - by abaris - December 28, 2014 at 8:04 am
RE: Drinking Education - by Alex K - December 28, 2014 at 8:49 am
RE: Drinking Education - by polar bear - December 28, 2014 at 12:34 pm
RE: Drinking Education - by Jenny A - December 28, 2014 at 2:25 pm
RE: Drinking Education - by bennyboy - December 28, 2014 at 8:31 pm
RE: Drinking Education - by Exian - December 28, 2014 at 8:36 pm
RE: Drinking Education - by Minimalist - December 28, 2014 at 8:39 pm
RE: Drinking Education - by SteelCurtain - December 28, 2014 at 9:22 pm
RE: Drinking Education - by thesummerqueen - December 28, 2014 at 11:14 pm
RE: Drinking Education - by Jenny A - December 29, 2014 at 12:56 pm
RE: Drinking Education - by Regina - January 7, 2015 at 1:08 am

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  The Integration of Religion into the Education System Leonardo17 2 1048 June 8, 2024 at 11:25 am
Last Post: Leonardo17
  Education vs. Indoctrination Leonardo17 33 6019 May 16, 2024 at 10:52 am
Last Post: h311inac311
  Determinism vs Education Silver 17 2406 October 14, 2021 at 8:10 pm
Last Post: Ranjr
  Grades vs Education TheBeardedDude 51 9749 December 26, 2013 at 6:31 pm
Last Post: bennyboy
  Education and Motivation Terry 8 3130 January 15, 2013 at 4:57 pm
Last Post: Sedna



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)