Why do parents let their kids go to drinking parties (or even worse, host them!) in high school?
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Anonymous
| It’s bizarre to me. I have an 8th grader. No way are they going to any of these. Nothing good can come of them. |
Anonymous
| How are you going to stop it? |
Anonymous
No unsupervised hangouts. Movies & and walking around the mall on a Friday night with mom & dad. |
Anonymous
lol you dumb |
Anonymous
| Parents don’t know. That’s how my kid went to their first party with alcohol. |
Anonymous
It will be less bizarre when your kid is 17 or 18, accepted to college, has friends that you've known for years and wants to go to a grad party or an after prom party with them with plans to stay over (no driving). You might even grow to trust the young adult that you raised before you send them off to college. |
Anonymous
| I want my kids to learn how to date & handle alcohol responsibly before they go off to college. |
Anonymous
How many drinks do you believe your 19 year old daughter might be able to handle before she’s an easy target for date rape? |
Anonymous
Oh they're going to love that . . . |
Anonymous
Trying to be your child’s friend? They need actual parents with the guts to say no. |
Anonymous
| This is very hard to prevent. Kids are sneaky. |
Anonymous
Trust, but verify. ALWAYS. Don’t be “too busy”. |
Anonymous
| Look up the Duggar’s schedules for their teens. Follow that. |
Anonymous
We verified by calling the parents who said they would supervise. Turned out that they were actually supplying kids with alcohol. |
Anonymous
| I don't even understand why kids even want to. I truly don't understand it. I made it through my teens years without drinking just fine. |