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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the old way of thinking used to be we Americans are too uptight and if we were more laid back about letting kids have sips or little cups of wine they wouldn't abuse alcohol down the line.

Now we are finding out alcohol is pretty bad for the brain. Some alcoholics will tell you from the first sip they were triggered. One expert is saying in 10 years we will look at alcohol the way we do cigarettes-extremely damaging and a poor choice.

In my 20s I would have said sure it's no big deal. Now from all I have read, I really would not introduce my kids to it. I will respect their choices down the road when they are legal, but I will arm them with all the info.

Even the studies that said a little wine is healthy are being debunked.[/quote]

I forgot to mention, I do have a college friend who always seem to have struggle with alcohol. She and her now ex husband allowed their kids to have alcohol really young with the whole idea of how making it a forbidden fruit is what causes problems. Keep in mind she was allowed alcohol young and seemed to abuse it. She is a mostly functional alcoholic who has never lost a job, but has needed to call in "sick" for hangovers and she has a DUI. Anyway two of her young adult kids have been in treatment for alcohol and substance abuse and her highschooler definitely is abusing alcohol so being laid back about alcohol did not prevent the issues. In her case I think she was laid back about alcohol because she was in denial about her own substance abuse.[/quote]

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