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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I like to enjoy a good bottle of wine or nice craft beer on weekends. We've gone to breweries for lunch and never saw sitting in front of our toddler with a beer as a major sin. In fact, it seems like a common thing these days. I can't imagine every child at Dogfish Alehouse is headed for detox in ten years.

My mother, on the other hand, has started sticking her nose into this and insisting we're going to turn DS into an alcoholic. She's always been very touchy about alcohol. She had relatives who drank. We're not talking enjoying a good Stout or two or French Bordeaux with friends but 40+ year hard liquor-drinking alcoholics who literally died from it, kidney failure and all. So, yes, it get it. Alcohol upsets her, but I don't appreciate the "I know better" attitude she takes on. She even seems to pride herself on not drinking and will rub it in our faces that wine gives her a headache or she can only stand "a little bit, that's all!"

We honestly don't believe we're turning our kid into an alcoholic. I'm getting tired of the phone conversations that she guides towards the subject of alcohol and passive-aggressive remarks about how parents who drink will have kids who are drinkers. Ok, so every vineyard owning family in Napa is damaging their offspring? The guy who likes to homebrew is ruining his little girl with every growler she sees?

Even my dad used to enjoy a beer or two, but she's knocked that out of him with her Carrie Nation attitude since she shoots him looks if he accepts a bottle. I'm just tired of being made to feel like I'm a bad parent because DH and I had 1-2 beers each on a Friday night or like to go wine-tasting.

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