Anonymous wrote:Every dinner? No. Special occasions like Thanksgiving or Christmas, yes I’ve allowed it.

Anonymous wrote:Drinking every day, especially encouraging kids to drink, is so trashy. I can’t imagine letting my kids do that.

Anonymous wrote:Drinking every day, especially encouraging kids to drink, is so trashy. I can’t imagine letting my kids do that.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess this depends on your commitment to sit down for a family meal regularly. If you’re relying on Uber Eats or DoorDash to feed your family you can just move along from here.

We pair a bottle of wine with our family dinners. Allowing our teens to enjoy wine with their meal serves to demystify alcohol. It has served us and them well.

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PP. and let ds taste wine when he asked at a restaurant. He thought it tasted like poison. He hasn’t asked again.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of alcoholic relatives of DCUMs. It explains a lot.

Whatever, MAGA.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure what the research says, but I always assumed it was a way to make alcohol not a big deal, but my son's friend was allowed alcohol from an early age ranging from a sip to eventually a glass and the kids (big family) all struggle with alcohol if not full blown alcoholism as teens and young adults so apparently it didn't work in that case.

What the research says (it validates your observation):

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6521692/

https://www.jsad.com/doi/10.15288/jsad.21-00437

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Seriously? And you don't realize their agendas?

Public health? What do you think their "agenda" is?

Oh you sweet summer child.

Yes I’m sure their agenda is to prevent you from the health benefits of alcohol and ruin your social life. I’m sure you’ve cracked the code.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess this depends on your commitment to sit down for a family meal regularly. If you’re relying on Uber Eats or DoorDash to feed your family you can just move along from here.

We pair a bottle of wine with our family dinners. Allowing our teens to enjoy wine with their meal serves to demystify alcohol. It has served us and them well.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess this depends on your commitment to sit down for a family meal regularly. If you’re relying on Uber Eats or DoorDash to feed your family you can just move along from here.

We pair a bottle of wine with our family dinners. Allowing our teens to enjoy wine with their meal serves to demystify alcohol. It has served us and them well.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't usually drink with dinners, but we have let our now 18 year old have wine with us at special meals when we do.

Bravo. You’ll find your child will be more responsible with alcohol than the children of holy rollers here.

Lol. I never had alcohol growing up and I’m completely responsible with it. You need tons of practice for this. All you need is the self-confidence and self-love to know how to drink something to enjoy it, and stopping when your body has had enough.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't usually drink with dinners, but we have let our now 18 year old have wine with us at special meals when we do.

Bravo. You’ll find your child will be more responsible with alcohol than the children of holy rollers here.

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Anonymous wrote:We aren’t alcoholics that drink every day.

Oh, this is so tiresome. If someone has dessert every day, do you say they have a "dessert problem" or are a "chocoholic?"

Chocolate is not a neurotoxin like alcohol is.

A drink a day doesn’t make you an alcoholic.

But it does increase your risk of cancer, damage your brain, age you, cause depression/anxiety, and lower your overall health and wellbeing. I say this as someone who drinks more than once a week, but I know how bad it is.