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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Leaving town is irresponsible, but teaching your kids how to handle alcohol is not.

I will always be grateful to my friend's parents who allowed our friend group to come over to their house and drink. No one got pregnant, but we all learned our limit and none of us had problems with alchohol in college (ie alcohol induced date rape, driving while drinking, etc...) I would have easily been victimized if I had my first drinking experiences as a frehman in college. But, the kids need to be supervised all at times. [/quote]

Well, it may be illegal but I'm sure glad that parents allowed this kind of drinking when I was in high school.  If I had gone to college with no idea of how much alcohol I could handle I would have been in a lot of trouble, and danger.[/quote]

Yes, I drank before I was legal, too.  But I did so with my parents, not drinking without an adult present and monitoring and not without my parents consent.

If you want to prep your child, then the summer before college, you can teach your child to drink at home.  That's you as a parent making the decision to teach your child how to drink.  Not some parent you've never met who allows their child to host a party, which your child attends, and leaving the kids to learn to drink without you knowing about it and without parents monitoring the kids.  I know of a child who was hospitalized for alcohol poisoning from one of those parties because they kids don't know how to drink responsibly and there was no one there to teach them.  All they did was leave the kids with alcohol and a bunch of other kids who goaded each other into drinking more, not responsibly.

You only have the right to make choices for your children, not anyone else's children.  The other parents have to decide how to handle it, but if you host a party with minors and provide alcohol without letting the other parents know, you deserve whatever book that the law chooses to throw at you.  [/quote]

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