Where to store alcohol in a home with teens

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could examine your alcohol consumption and assess whether you've had enough. Kids follow your example, so of course they're going to drink if you drink and smoke if you smoke. I have a dry house -always have. That shit is poison, which sickens you, increases cancer risk, makes you lose inhibitions, makes you look and smell like shit and does nothing good for you.

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OP here. I’m surprised at the judgmental responses when looking for advice, maybe I should not be. I am almost three years sober (by choice) and my husband only drinks when we are with others and/or host. As I stated, the fridge is full - of alcohol cans and champagne and wine - and we have zero issues with our son / he has no interest. I will get a lock for a basement closet and relocate it all. Thanks very much to all who had productive and supportive responses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could examine your alcohol consumption and assess whether you've had enough. Kids follow your example, so of course they're going to drink if you drink and smoke if you smoke. I have a dry house -always have. That shit is poison, which sickens you, increases cancer risk, makes you lose inhibitions, makes you look and smell like shit and does nothing good for you.

Spare us the sermons. Drinking to excess is of course a scourge and different than having a glass of wine once or twice per week which 99% of adults are capable.

I guess your kids need to be locked in their room because they can’t be trusted. Maybe you should work on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could examine your alcohol consumption and assess whether you've had enough. Kids follow your example, so of course they're going to drink if you drink and smoke if you smoke. I have a dry house -always have. That shit is poison, which sickens you, increases cancer risk, makes you lose inhibitions, makes you look and smell like shit and does nothing good for you.

+1

OP here. I’m surprised at the judgmental responses when looking for advice, maybe I should not be. I am almost three years sober (by choice) and my husband only drinks when we are with others and/or host. As I stated, the fridge is full - of alcohol cans and champagne and wine - and we have zero issues with our son / he has no interest. I will get a lock for a basement closet and relocate it all. Thanks very much to all who had productive and supportive responses.

Why? Your conclusions seem completely at odds with your situation.

It’s like your punishing your son for his future transgressions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could examine your alcohol consumption and assess whether you've had enough. Kids follow your example, so of course they're going to drink if you drink and smoke if you smoke. I have a dry house -always have. That shit is poison, which sickens you, increases cancer risk, makes you lose inhibitions, makes you look and smell like shit and does nothing good for you.

+1

OP here. I’m surprised at the judgmental responses when looking for advice, maybe I should not be. I am almost three years sober (by choice) and my husband only drinks when we are with others and/or host. As I stated, the fridge is full - of alcohol cans and champagne and wine - and we have zero issues with our son / he has no interest. I will get a lock for a basement closet and relocate it all. Thanks very much to all who had productive and supportive responses.

Why? Your conclusions seem completely at odds with your situation.

It’s like your punishing your son for his future transgressions.

This is about his friends who come over. I don’t know if they experiment and I don’t hover when they hang out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Locking up alcohol as if it were a gun is insane. Try parenting instead.

Agreed. My parents kept alcohol in the pantry by the ramen noodles.

[Anonymous]

We kept ours in the pantry. Growing up my parents kept alcohol in the open as well.

[Anonymous]

Lock it, simple

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Locking up alcohol as if it were a gun is insane. Try parenting instead.

This- the problem is not the alcohol

Even the best kids will experiment no matter how good the parenting is. My friends and I did it. Hide it, lock it up.

Not true. There are actually good kids out there. I guess you just weren’t one of them.

[Anonymous]

We took ours of the basement fridge and keep it up above our kitchen fridge in a cupboard. Nevermind the judgement, OP. . My kids are good kids, sports, honors, etc. we also have a good relationship. But I’m not naive enough to think that they would not drink with their friends and as a criminal defense attorney who practices in juvenile court, I’ve seen too many cases where kids drink themselves to dangerous levels. I am certainly not going to make it easier for them to do that with my alcohol in my basement.

was also a “good kid” who experimented in high school. The obstacles I faced in getting alcohol (anybody else wait outside the 7-11 for someone to buy them beer?) were real and I think part of what kept my drinking to that experimental level. People who are going on about “trust” and minimize teen drinking are the ones who should not judge. Good job, OP!

[Anonymous]

We keep ours in a box in the back of a cabinet in the kitchen. It isn't somewhere anyone would just come across it unless they looked or were going through the cabinets. They know where it is but know it is off limits.

Usually we have a few cold drinks in the fridge. They also know this is off limits.

It isn't hidden, just not visible. If they or their friends got into it - that is teens being teens and it would be dealt with accordingly just like if we caught them doing something else they aren't allowed to do. I doubt they want to chance not being able to have friends over so to our knowledge, it hasn't been a issue yet. And if they have and got away with it, then hey - they can tell us about it in ten years!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to fill the vodka bottle back with water to the level it was before lol. I also think we drank some really questionable things that were cocktail ingredients sitting in the cabinet for 20 years.

If you’re worried about it, put the bottles behind a lock.

This happened at many of my friends houses. Good call to keep it behind a lock. Even if it’s not your kid, his friends may sneak it when they are over.

We don’t keep any alcohol in the house and buy it for the night if we want to have a drink or are hosting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could examine your alcohol consumption and assess whether you've had enough. Kids follow your example, so of course they're going to drink if you drink and smoke if you smoke. I have a dry house -always have. That shit is poison, which sickens you, increases cancer risk, makes you lose inhibitions, makes you look and smell like shit and does nothing good for you.

You sound like charming company

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Locking up alcohol as if it were a gun is insane. Try parenting instead.

This- the problem is not the alcohol

Even the best kids will experiment no matter how good the parenting is. My friends and I did it. Hide it, lock it up.

Not true. There are actually good kids out there. I guess you just weren’t one of them.

+1. Never had any booze until college, except for a few sips of Manischewitz at Passover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Locking up alcohol as if it were a gun is insane. Try parenting instead.

It is parenting you twit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Locking up alcohol as if it were a gun is insane. Try parenting instead.

This- the problem is not the alcohol

Even the best kids will experiment no matter how good the parenting is. My friends and I did it. Hide it, lock it up.

Not true. There are actually good kids out there. I guess you just weren’t one of them.

Some kids would never experiment and others would. It's better to remove it from obvious places in the house.