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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is so scary to me that there are parents out here who even think this is a question. SMH.[/quote]

I'll bite-- why is it so scary to you. Do you think everyone who has a beer at 15 end up with unhealthy approach to alcohol?  Or that everyone who has a beer at 15 suffer lifelong health consequences?[/quote]

Is it or is it not OK to break the law, moron? Oh it is? Oh but just THIS law?

Hope your kids enjoy jail, suspension, losing a job, and all the other natural, predictable consequences of breaking the law and the rules of schools and businesses.[/quote]

I appreciate the thoughtful responses but I think this is hysterical. [/quote]

Tell it to the judge when your 17- or 18-year-old gets a DUI.

We had a lot of parents like you when I was on the swim team. My parents were the "uncool" ones. Here are actual things that happened to some of my teammmates:

1) One did, in fact, get a DUI when she was a freshman at Michigan State, age 19. Lost a swimming scholarship. 
2) One lost the team captain position when my coach heard she drank at a party. A high school consequence, sure. Low-stakes, sure. But a natural consequence of her dumb behavior.
3) One started abusing drugs while in high school and went down the full, predictable druggie path. Two babies with two different dads; she has never had custody, her parents raise them. She's been in and out of jail. Never held down a decent job. Rehab, lose a job at Pizza Hut or some such, rinse, repeat.
4) My friend got in too deep with some of the guys on the boys team and kind of became...known as a slut. She has a fine life now, but that can't be fun to look back on.

There were other teammates who drank and got away with it and no big consequences, sure. Maybe your kids will be like those kids, fine. Maybe not.
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You must be a child of an alcoholic because you’re completely hysterical[/quote]

Every single one of those things actually happened to people I was on the swim team with in high school.

And as I mentioned, yes, of course there were some kids who drank and there were no real consequences. But sure, go down the path of losing scholarships, DUIs and drug abuse and good luck.

Because you don't get to act like you can predict what will happen for YOUR kid. You don't get to declare that you will have a no-consequence kid vs. a kid who gets a DUI.

Best of luck![/quote]

Thanks for warning us, PP. I’m definitely not going to let my kids swim. [/quote]

Best of luck! Gooooooood luck! Think of me when the entirely predictable consequence comes, PP. Think of me.[/quote]

It’s a gateway. You think it will just be swim. But then they start diving. Or playing water polo. [/quote]

Best of luck! Good luck. I will try to hide my smug smile when I hear about the latest round of dumb-ass behavior and predictable consequences from your set. I'll pretend to nod with concern and cluck sympathetically. [/quote]

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