NFW. They can drink wine with us at 21 when they are legal.

However there are an alarming number of Americans who are alcoholics. But given your lifestyles, it's not unexpected. Very sad.

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.

Yes, we are French and this is how we educate them on wine. The blends, varietals, terroir, etc.

No. Their dad is a functioning alcoholic. They see nothing positive about wine or alcohol.

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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?"

NP. Yeeeaahh, that’s the same.

Having a glass of wine with dinner every night is fine. Billions have done it throughout history without issue. Point is, both are no big deal, but DCUM loves to gasp and clutch its pearls about drinking any amount.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

No. It's illegal to serve alcoholic beverages to anyone under ,age 21, even at home

Varies by state.

Its allowed in Virginia.

No. Everyone I know who started drinking at a young age is now an alcoholic.

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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.

No. It's illegal to serve alcoholic beverages to anyone under ,age 21, even at home

not true

Anonymous wrote:I lost the plot on the uber eats thing? What does that have to do with giving kids wine?

Op pairs wine carefully with their home cooked meals.

I’m not a big drinker. Dh drinks a bourbon once a week or so. We don’t eat out a lot, but I don’t judge other people who do, it’s just what we prefer and fits in our budget better.

We haven’t given our teens alcohol yet. Dh is very much against it. I’m not sure it ultimately has an affect on their future intake. Like others have said, siblings in the same family have turned out differently despite the same exposure to alcohol. Therefore I don’t see any reason to give them much while their brain is developing.

I offered my college aged daughter a glass of wine last night with dinner and she gave me such a dirty look. She's not a drinker (I don't drink much myself), but said wine would be her last drink of choice. It's for old people.

Anonymous wrote:We're French, and had our kids taste wine and other alcohols when they pretty young, because in many French families, this is what happens. They didn't like it. So now they're young adults and older teens, we drink extremely rarely (a couple of times a year, maybe), and the children don't usually join us, even though we'd have no problems if they did. I think we all lack the gene that makes humans like alcohol. It does nothing for us. We would definitely NOT be fine with frequent drinking. As PP said, it's not good for your health.

Italian and same. Never seen any member of my family drunk.

No, but my college aged kids drink alcohol with meals on weekends.

I lost the plot on the uber eats thing? What does that have to do with giving kids wine?

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Anonymous wrote:We're French, and had our kids taste wine and other alcohols when they pretty young, because in many French families, this is what happens. They didn't like it. So now they're young adults and older teens, we drink extremely rarely (a couple of times a year, maybe), and the children don't usually join us, even though we'd have no problems if they did. I think we all lack the gene that makes humans like alcohol. It does nothing for us. We would definitely NOT be fine with frequent drinking. As PP said, it's not good for your health.

France has a huge problem with binge drinking and teenagers. Definitely not a culture to emulate. Europeans in general are lushes — ever see the Brits? And like 3/4 of Russians show signs of fetal alcohol syndrome in their faces.

Did you even read the post you are responding to or did you stop at "We're French"?

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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.

It's like you started this thread to try to feel superior to others except I haven't read anything that implies people are holy rollers. Nice try, troll.