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[quote=Anonymous]I think letting kids experiment with fun hair is normal and totally innocent.  Personally, the two people I know in my life with fun hair do it now as adults because they had parents who were very restrictive about their appearance.  One came from a Navy family where the dad even had rules about the kids not being allowed to wear t-shirts!  They had to dress like little businessmen each day they went to school in polos or button-downs.

I don't ever getting a party invite where every detail was spelled out.  That's a bit odd of a request, IMO.

What's hard about having an addiction in your family (because that's what alcoholism is) is that you don't know when or how it's going to manifest.  My grandpa was a recovered alcoholic.  My grandma forbid alcohol in her house at all once he was sober.  This, of course, made my dad and his siblings all very curious about it.  They started drinking as young teens.  None of them became alcoholics, but my uncle's addiction did manifest in the form of a drug addiction.  He eventually got sober and none of his kids have any addictions.  However, my brother is an alcoholic and 3 of my cousins from my dad's other siblings all have addictions of some sort.

You can be as careful and cautious as you want regarding alcohol, but that addiction still may manifest in another way.  My one cousin didn't realize that her obesity was the product of our addictive genes until she started therapy.

Personally, mocktails can be seen as a good way to show kids that they can appear to be drinking without really drinking.  My career is one that's still very focused on making deals over drinks at happy hour.  I don't drink but learned that I get more respect as a businesswoman if I order a mocktail vs a glass of water/tea/soda.  Club soda w/ a lime wedge is my usual drink, but sometimes I'll go to the bar and order just water in a martini glass with olives.  Trust me, the bartenders do not even bat an eye at these requests.  They've heard it all.      [/quote]

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