Re: Alcohol and teens
ok for me this was kind of a learning experience, as some of you know I have 3 daughters, me and their mother divorced soon after my youngest daughter was born.
So my oldest was 15 at the time and we were with my family having dinner when my oldest asks me if she can have some of my Beer(the other two were right behind her) now mind you she didn't ask for a taste she asked for "SOME" so I asked her why and she told me she liked beer, so I was like HUH?? Where and when have you had beer which is when she dropped the bomb on me, "At Moms house, she lets me have some sometimes"...
So not to be upstaged by my Exwife in front of my family I said Sure, then as expected the other two wanted some too.
So I sat all three down at the dinner table, in front of my family (who were visibly uncomfortable) and I rolled into the kitchen and poured 3 light shot glasses of tequila (like a half mouthful TOPS) then handed them each a glass and and said bottoms up girls!
My oldest was the only one to take a sip while the younger (and clearly WISER) Girls watched, my family was now very very MAD at me and then we all watched my oldest daughters face turn green.
Hasn't been a problem since...
My oldest turned 21 this past September.
Now my Son, (Became my son through my second wife), is a little different since my second wife is a better shot then I am I had to take things a little differently, and we all know Boys are different then Girls, his father is an alcoholic also, so we felt that teaching him to respect alcohol and not be swayed by peer pressure was the way to go, I let him have his first taste of beer at 15, by 17 he could drink a beer with me when I thought it was appropriate, its not the perfect situation but my first wife is an alcoholic and her father is too so with all of that experience I felt it important to nip the vice in the bud with my daughters because I have that strong father thing with them but with my son I felt it needed to be approached differently but that's just me, my wife has always felt that its better to let the kids have alcohol when they are with us rather then at some other place so that we could monitor things and regulate it and I have a hard time with it sometimes but that's what we did.
On another note I would advise you to check your laws as you may be surprised at what you find, a lot of states its perfectly legal to let your children have alcohol when you are overseeing them, it was a big surprise for me, of course letting your kid get drunk will quickly land you in jail, remember it wasn't so long ago that drinking wine at dinner was the norm for the whole family, mostly because it was more healthy then the water from the tap.
Also remember I said YOUR OWN children.
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