Thoughts about teenage drinking. It scares me to no end of what can happen to them. Am I the cool mom who turns the other way or am I the witch who keeps them from having fun?
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on Aug. 11, 2012 at 2:12 PM
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It needs a balance. A few drinks at home, with family, ok..
Going out and partying, the possibility of drunk driving..no!
Going out and partying, the possibility of drunk driving..no!
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No partying as a teen. A sip here and there. In WI it is legal to give your own minor child alcohol.
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on Aug. 11, 2012 at 2:20 PM
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I will not buy my kid a drink until its legal and maybe not even then. It sends the WRONG message if you condone it in your home. And other people's kids no way.
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on Aug. 11, 2012 at 2:21 PM
The other part of this is that I am worried about their "social game". My daughter wanted to go to a party and then stay the night at another friends house. I was O.K. with her going to the party but not staying at the friends house. Seemed kind of fishy. She blew up at me which made me wonder even more.
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on Aug. 11, 2012 at 2:52 PM
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Illegal is illegal, period. I think it's asinine to give anyone under the legal age alcohol.
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on Aug. 11, 2012 at 3:42 PM
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Well, drinking should equil having fun I think that's first off a big myth about drinking.. there was never a time as a teen where I had been drinking and thought wow this is so much fun.. it always ended in disasters puking my guts out by the end of it all.. I think if we were going to really teach or educate kids about alcohol then we would should how things really go.. not this m.t.v idea of how cool it is to drink with complete strangers that don't give a flip about anyone but them selves...
That is a great start them legal stuff my kids under age drinking is not as important as their well being or my getting into trouble cause I want be cool!! That boat sailed long ago when the stick went positive... now I am a parent which in its meaning is some one that guides and out lines the right and wrong ways in which to conduct our selves.. so if dear old mom is to busy being cool then she not doing her real job which is setting a good examples...
So no way am I going to condone drinking they have their adult lives for that stuff n that will affect them only not me.. and no one will look at me saying what kind of parent are you!!
That is a great start them legal stuff my kids under age drinking is not as important as their well being or my getting into trouble cause I want be cool!! That boat sailed long ago when the stick went positive... now I am a parent which in its meaning is some one that guides and out lines the right and wrong ways in which to conduct our selves.. so if dear old mom is to busy being cool then she not doing her real job which is setting a good examples...
So no way am I going to condone drinking they have their adult lives for that stuff n that will affect them only not me.. and no one will look at me saying what kind of parent are you!!
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on Aug. 11, 2012 at 7:07 PM
Agree! Validating partying for minors is not a good idea. And we have to lead by example, using alcohol responsibly, moderately, and appropriately. The do as I say and not as I do tactic never works with teens.
Quoting bizzeemom2717:
I will not buy my kid a drink until its legal and maybe not even then. It sends the WRONG message if you condone it in your home. And other people's kids no way.
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