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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am italian and basically don’t drink. [b]I only drink if there is something to celebrate[/b] or if I am going out (which happens maybe once a month).

No one in my family drank much except for my grandfathers that always had wine with meals. I did not grow up thinking alcohol was this amazing yet forbidden thing and never grew to like it. I could have alcohol anytime I wanted (wine and beer because I don’t think my family ever had hard liquor in the house). I remember drinking a beer with my dad once when I was 7 and getting very tipsy. It was never a big deal. I used to go clubbing a lot in Italy in high school and I would only get fruit juice at the bar (as did most of my girlfriend).

When I came to the US at 19 I was shocked with the level of drinking and how kids in my dorm would just drink to get drunk. I still don’t get it.

My husband (not Italian) drinks a lot more (almost every day I think). My kids have been able to try and taste wine and beer since they were little. If they ever ask for, I would pour them  small glass and we probably have given them a little bit of champagne to cheer on special occasions. Definitely at 12, but we did it a lot younger too.

I still don’t get it. Everything in excess is bad for you.[/quote]

BUT BUT BUT BUT we jut CANT let a 12 year old get the message that celebrations often involve alcohol!!!![/quote]

Why? This obsession with alcohol is so weird! 
If it’s so bad why are the adults drinking in the first place? Why are setting such a “bad” examples telling kids that only when they are older they can do the “cool” things their parents do.

Don’t you see that by drinking yourself, but no lt allowing the kids to have a little here or there YOU are making it into a big deal?
Because I basically never drink, I doubt my kids will drink much growing up, but also they won’t think it’s such a big deal that only the grown ups can do if they have been kept away from it.

I don’t see many Italians with alcohol problems (I personally know none) and yet all these kids were exposed to wine, beer and champagne since they were little![/quote]

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