(December 28, 2014 at 12:38 am)Jenny A Wrote: 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?
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Yes you should get your girls prepared for the social life in college that includes drinking. I recommend teaching her all the variety of alcohol drinks and the benifits of being the sober one. You should also teach her how to become drunk once, and how to sober up afterwards.
