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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious for everyone keeping their kids dry....what exactly do you expect will happen when they are exposed to unlimited alcohol during the first few nights they are at college and for the entire freshman and sophomore years before they turn legal?[/quote]

The research is clear: The younger kids are when they start drinking, the higher their risk will be for developing alcohol use disorder.[/quote]
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My husband’s father died from alcohol-induced cirrhosis. Life-long alcoholic. There is definitely alcohol use disorder tendency.

We never let our kids/teens taste alcohol or give it to them to “prepare them or see how they will react”. We live a block or so from a bar district and my kids grew up watching 20/30 year olds stumble drunk and fall passed out in lawns, saw drunk driving arrests/crashes into signs, etc, As kids they thought it was ridiculous- not glamorous.

I have a college freshmen who is an athlete and doesn’t drink, never has, never wanted to. He’s seen kids in his grade die in drunk driving crashes. He’s very into health and what he puts in his body. He has a thriving social life and a great group of friends.

I also have a rising HS senior, we teach that weed before 21 is highly correlated to developing irreversible psychosis- it’s not 1980s weed. We teach not getting in a car ever with somebody that’s been drinking. So far he’s very into his sport and doesn’t go to parties.

Husband and I were huge drinkers in college/20s/early 30s. I drink a lot less now. Husband could stand to cut back.

The parents worried about their kid’s popularity or “coolness” are the worst. Anyone who gives teens alcohol at a party is a complete idiot. Anyone that knowingly hosts alcohol parties for teens is deserving of jail time when something goes wrong—kids get into accidents, etc [/quote]

I could repeat a lot of what was said here.  DC is also an athlete and cares about their body.  They think drunk adults or the drunk teens that stumble down or street out of the house of the "cool" parents are idiots. And, no, DC isn't a nerd.  You don't *have* to drink and, luckily, some kids are getting that message.[/quote]

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