Do you let your high schoolers enjoy wine with dinner at home?

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Anonymous wrote:We aren’t alcoholics that drink every day.

Oh, this is so tiresome. If someone has dessert every day, do you say they have a "dessert problem" or are a "chocoholic?"

Chocolate is not a neurotoxin like alcohol is.

A drink a day doesn’t make you an alcoholic.

But it does increase your risk of cancer, damage your brain, age you, cause depression/anxiety, and lower your overall health and wellbeing. I say this as someone who drinks more than once a week, but I know how bad it is.

Stressing 24/7 for 8+ years about Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 is much worse than a drink per day.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/stress/art-20046037

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Anonymous wrote:I don't usually drink with dinners, but we have let our now 18 year old have wine with us at special meals when we do.

Bravo. You’ll find your child will be more responsible with alcohol than the children of holy rollers here.

Lol. I never had alcohol growing up and I’m completely responsible with it. You need tons of practice for this. All you need is the self-confidence and self-love to know how to drink something to enjoy it, and stopping when your body has had enough.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't usually drink with dinners, but we have let our now 18 year old have wine with us at special meals when we do.

Bravo. You’ll find your child will be more responsible with alcohol than the children of holy rollers here.

Lol. I never had alcohol growing up and I’m completely responsible with it. You need tons of practice for this. All you need is the self-confidence and self-love to know how to drink something to enjoy it, and stopping when your body has had enough.

You *don’t* need tons of practice for this.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess this depends on your commitment to sit down for a family meal regularly. If you’re relying on Uber Eats or DoorDash to feed your family you can just move along from here.

We pair a bottle of wine with our family dinners. Allowing our teens to enjoy wine with their meal serves to demystify alcohol. It has served us and them well.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess this depends on your commitment to sit down for a family meal regularly. If you’re relying on Uber Eats or DoorDash to feed your family you can just move along from here.

We pair a bottle of wine with our family dinners. Allowing our teens to enjoy wine with their meal serves to demystify alcohol. It has served us and them well.

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PP. and let ds taste wine when he asked at a restaurant. He thought it tasted like poison. He hasn’t asked again.

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Every dinner? No. Special occasions like Thanksgiving or Christmas, yes I’ve allowed it.

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After they turn 21, sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure what the research says, but I always assumed it was a way to make alcohol not a big deal, but my son's friend was allowed alcohol from an early age ranging from a sip to eventually a glass and the kids (big family) all struggle with alcohol if not full blown alcoholism as teens and young adults so apparently it didn't work in that case.

What the research says (it validates your observation):

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6521692/

https://www.jsad.com/doi/10.15288/jsad.21-00437

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Seriously? And you don't realize their agendas?

Public health? What do you think their "agenda" is?

Oh you sweet summer child.

Yes I’m sure their agenda is to prevent you from the health benefits of alcohol and ruin your social life. I’m sure you’ve cracked the code.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of alcoholic relatives of DCUMs. It explains a lot.

Whatever, MAGA.

MAGA? (DP)

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Anonymous wrote:I guess this depends on your commitment to sit down for a family meal regularly. If you’re relying on Uber Eats or DoorDash to feed your family you can just move along from here.

We pair a bottle of wine with our family dinners. Allowing our teens to enjoy wine with their meal serves to demystify alcohol. It has served us and them well.

No

PP. and let ds taste wine when he asked at a restaurant. He thought it tasted like poison. He hasn’t asked again.

House Wine IS poison for the people who don't know any better about wine, but want to crook their little finger up and act sophisticated.

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Drinking every day, especially encouraging kids to drink, is so trashy. I can’t imagine letting my kids do that.

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Anonymous wrote:Drinking every day, especially encouraging kids to drink, is so trashy. I can’t imagine letting my kids do that.

Perhaps. But so is eating junk like pizza and white bread and sodas everyday.

Trashy is a very subjective term. However "unhealthy" would be appropriate.

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Anonymous wrote:Drinking every day, especially encouraging kids to drink, is so trashy. I can’t imagine letting my kids do that.

I can assure you that a Wagyu beef bolognese paired with a Pira Chiara Boschis Nebbiolo is anything but trashy. It should be ready in about 20 minutes. I’ll be toasting you and your takeout order tonight.

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Anonymous wrote:Every dinner? No. Special occasions like Thanksgiving or Christmas, yes I’ve allowed it.

This, more of a treat thing. Teaches them to not drink at every meal, but for more special occasions.