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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't drank a drop of booze in 20 years. I don't like the taste, and don't like the intoxicating effect. DH drinks a beer maybe once every month when he is with a friend.

I would have no problem with the mocktails as described. First off, I think you are projecting your own issues with booze on your daughter and that's not fair to her.

Secondly, even if you read into it as 'glamorizing' alcohol, to me it sounds like it is showing exactly the situation where having a few drinks (as an adult) is absolutely acceptable; at a special occasion with good friends as a celebration. Had it just been two of them sitting alone at a dingy bar chugging a drink called a virgin Long Island Ice Tea maybe I would raise my eyebrows, but this? Sounds like a bunch of kids having fun drinking safe, non alcoholic drinks that taste good.

That said, I don't think it's going to lead to them drinking booze. From like age five all my kids would get to drink sparkling apple cider from our wine glasses for special occasions (Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc), which I'm sure according to OP is promoting alcoholism, and would take every chance to do so. It wasn't because they saw it as alcohol-like, but rather because it was a fun tradition. My adult children (24/m and 21/f) do drink responsibly now, but not because we let them drink from wine glasses as kids (24 year old does not even like the taste of wine) it's because they are their own people and can decide their own relationship with alcohol same as I did when I decided I just didn't see the point. If they stop using it responsibly, then that's when it's a problem.[/quote]

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