I didn’t. Neither did my close friends. We were told that alcohol messes with your judgment, and none of us wanted that. |
If you have to hide alcohol from your teens then there is a problem at home. I could keep a bottle of opened wine in my fridge for months and my teen wouldn’t touch it. Just like if I left my purse open with $20 bills spilling out of it they wouldn’t bother they either. Now I do ration out the Oreo cookies or they will be eaten without any constraint. I put 4 or so in a baggy a day. |
OP it’s literally one mom responding 10x and even +1 her own responses. She is the issue, not you. |
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It’s perfectly normal to have alcohol sitting out. It’s also normal not to have it sitting out. Both ways are fine and neither is superior. What a weird thing to flex about. |
We were told that alcohol makes you fat, and none of us wanted that. |
Why can’t they control themselves around Oreos? What did you do differently there? |
Same here. I waited until I was 21, which made me an extreme outlier. I'm still not naive enough to believe that my kids or their friends will never get curious. "My kid would never do that" are words that often get disproved, whether you're aware of it or not. |
Locking cabinet or file cabinet. |
Our beer fridge is in the garage. In our old house, it was in the storage/laundry room. Our liquor cabinet is in the dining room and we're usually around. If you really don't trust your kid, then you need an alarm on the door. Our alarm system has a setting where you can set a sensor to send a notification without any sound if a door is opened. |
+1 for locking it up. i was a really good kid for the most part. straight As, travel athlete, church volunteer.... and even then we would sneak booze from my friends' house whose parents did not lock it up or just casually kept it out. i am also from the MW my best friends parents had the bar in the basement thing. My parents did not keep booze in the house after i turned 15. YMMV, but i say lock it up. |
Really. Why would you do this? Just live the booze or talk w your son if you think it’s gonna be a problem. How old is he? |
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Are you actually comparing alcohol to Oreo cookies? |
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Kids who experiment with alcohol are bad kids, and kids that don’t are good kids? Lord, lady. You’re an a$$hole. |