RE: Drinking Education
December 28, 2014 at 12:55 am
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2014 at 1:02 am by Jenny A.)
(December 28, 2014 at 12:47 am)Aractus Wrote: In a nutshell it's a bad idea. Studies, like this one, have consistently shown that children who are allowed to drink small amounts of alcohol at home by their well-meaning parents are far more likely to start drinking earlier and to binge-drink. Parents think that by doing it they reduce the risk of their children abusing alcohol when in fact it's exactly the opposite that is true.
I'm not a parent, but my advice to any parent is that if you find out that your child has started drinking, do not keep any alcohol in the house. Alcohol is like any other drug, and is particularly harmful to children.
I don't think that your study is relevant to 18 year old kids heading out to college where alcohol is easily available.
(December 28, 2014 at 12:49 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: That is a education that'll be a definite help to them. But discuss it with them first...
College is a place where they will eventually have to deal with that stuff, you should at least teach them to recognize it and avoid when needed
Yes, the point is that they are likely to be handed a drink in college. I'd like them to know what that actually entails without going so far as to get them drunk. So many college drinks disguise the taste of alcohol rather well. I'd like like them to know how much they're getting and what that means.
Kinda hard to give kids an education in alcohol without discussing it though. . . The person I need to discuss it with before the child herself is her formerly tea-toddling father who now has a quarter glass of wine about once every two weeks. She's his too.
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