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[quote=Anonymous]I never offered my kids any full drinks at home.  Gave them a few sips of wine over the years.  They rarely see us have a drink.

This XKCD cartoon sums up my feelings about beer.

https://xkcd.com/1534/

As my kids got older, I talked (particularly to my older son) about people in my life and people in the news who were harmed or died in alcohol-related incidents.  These are sadly common.

*Uncle who was a passenger in a car that crashed because driver was drunk (uncle lived, driver died).

*Graduate of their high school who walked home drunk alone at night across campus.  Fell down and died of hypothermia.

*Several incidents in the news where drunk high schoolers and college students fell into bodies of water and drowned.

*Fraternity hazing/overdrinking

We talked about never being afraid to get "in trouble" to keep a friend from harm.  I want my kid to be the one who takes a friend to the ER, not the one who thinks "sleeping it off" cures all.

My kids are also not very interested in drinking because we are not inhibited people.  Our regular personalities are very similar to our "unwinding"/"relaxed" personalities. So we've discussed a lot of ideas over the years about being your real self and acceptance and not being painfully shy (being quiet and introverted is okay, but feeling bad about that and overcompensating is not).

My older kid is at college now and is definitely exposed to the negative effects of other people's overdrinking now.  But I feel he's fairly inoculated about hazardous overdrinking at this point.  That was my main objective.[/quote]

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