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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

No, but we don’t generally drink alcohol with dinner.

[Anonymous]

We aren’t alcoholics that drink every day.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Our kids have been able to try anything that the adults are drinking over the years. My 18yr old knows what she does and doesn't like.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Alcohol is a neurotoxin so I don't encourage drinking in developing brains. I've stopped drinking myself now that there is so much more info out there about just how bad it is for you.

[Anonymous]

We're French, and had our kids taste wine and other alcohols when they pretty young, because in many French families, this is what happens. They didn't like it. So now they're young adults and older teens, we drink extremely rarely (a couple of times a year, maybe), and the children don't usually join us, even though we'd have no problems if they did. I think we all lack the gene that makes humans like alcohol. It does nothing for us. We would definitely NOT be fine with frequent drinking. As PP said, it's not good for your health.

[Anonymous]

I don’t use DoorDash or Uber Eats almost ever, but your comment shows that you’re just seething with disdain for anyone who makes different choices than you do.

[Anonymous]

It's pretty well known that you give your teens Manischewitz during Passover so they are turned off from drinking while still a teen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t use DoorDash or Uber Eats almost ever, but your comment shows that you’re just seething with disdain for anyone who makes different choices than you do.

Take out is worse for children than a home cooked Mediterranean diet with a glass of wine. Obesity is the norm in the U.S.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Our kids have been able to try anything that the adults are drinking over the years. My 18yr old knows what she does and doesn't like.

+1 This includes Christmas hot toddies, the occasional beer/wine/mixed drink. If we are on vacation and the drinking age is 18, they can drink whatever they want. As parents, we usually just drink on special occasions though.

[Anonymous]

Alcohol is horrible for children. Bad enough for developed brains.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

No way.