When did you start letting your kid drink alcohol?

Smokey the idiot wrote:

Yeah, and when you wonder why their liver goes bad at 55 and why they have an alcohol addiction by 25, you'll know why.

Addiction is an issue with kids who grow up drinking without responsible adults helping control it. Look at countries where kids can belly up to the bar at a much younger age than 21. Alcohol issues aren't a problem, because the kids grow up understanding the negatives. My wife and I realize that our kids will be much more informed than their peers, although having alcohol available for kids at our parties will help change that, and will be much less likely to become abusers. By the time our kids get to college, they'll understand how to properly use alcohol, dare I say while your kids are probably getting trashed and waking up in the dumpster with a black hooker.

Being our kids friends has nothing to do with it. If we really wanted to be their friends, we'd be partying right there with them and tapping some of that when we all get drunk. In fact, on the few occasions where we maybe do find a naked or half-naked kid, we get them dressed backup and make sure they get home safe. How many parties have you been to where a responsible adult is doing something like that? If all we wanted was to be their friends, we wouldn't be acting like responsible adults in these situations.

Keep telling yourself that.

Seriously? I mean seriously? What kind of parenting is this?? You make your kids drink in order to be popular?!

Wait wait, lemme guess. When the girl asks to get her b00bs done bc she wants to get even more popular, you take her, right? You're a freaking tard.

Nice response, but you obviously don't have kids. Ours are very well adjusted and yes, very popular - probably everything you wish your kids were.

Actually, the daughter did just turn 18 and asked about getting implants. Her Mom and I are willing to do it, but not because it'd make her more popular, she's plenty popular as it is. We'd only do it because we're thinking that if she's really determined to get them, she should at least get them done by a good plastic surgeon.

His 13th birthday

in the womb

Wine and beer were always part of the holiday tables at my house and I do not remember ever being told to drink or not. What would you like to drink with dinner was the usual comment. While we did not have wine or beer at every meal certain dishes always saw them on the table. Family friends we ate with every week had Italian wine at every meal and I remember having 'my glass' at their house well, ever since I can remember.

The same family friends were table companions of my family for most holidays and "Playing Santa giving out xmas gifts as a 7 year old" morphed into setting the drinks and snacks up for other visits, playing host if you will, but we usually never had more than one drink per. Sometime in there I starting mixing a tiny one for myself or tasting the 'extra' when I made experimental summer sours or Collins type stuff at picnics etc..

Do not have any kids so permission it's a none issue for me. Bu sure I'd follow in the drink with dinner if you want idea. Not making an issues out of it at all. Of course going out required sticking to the law at licensed places, but even as a young teen the neighborhood family run Italian place with the deep red leather booths low lighting and frosty airconditioning that was a Friday pizza night staple seemed to have enough glasses on the table for me to pour my own wine or beer if I wanted. Just kept the glass closer to my mom or dads placesetting than mine. I know I never got drunk at a family &friends gathering or dinner table. I spent my life selling booze to the masses and then trying to pretend it was not altering their behavior. Watching booze alter the way people make decisions every night during my early career profoundly altered my lifetime outlook on consumption.

OK maybe the comment " This is not working, it is like trying to stick a marshmallow into a piggybank" from a very ready, very beautiful and long lusted after young lady played into that scenario too.

If you do this, you are an idiot! (and probably a troll, too)

Good way to end up in jail! You would be responsible for anything they did, on your property or not.

Smokey Mtn High wrote:

14 (son) and 15 (daughter). We were really concerned about our kids being popular and fitting in when they started HS, so we let them hold parties where we supplied alcohol. Yeah, there were minors but we made sure they all had rides home if they got drunk. My job was also to make sure no one had sex on our property. Obviously, if they left the property, there was nothing we could do.

In the end, we feel like the kids learned some valuable lessons about alcohol use that they hopefully carried into adulthood.

I was referring to sex. I'm fairly certain we won't get in trouble for two kids leaving our home and having sex somewhere else.

When we first set up these parties, the idea of kids having sex during the parties never entered our minds, but we caught my daughter performing fellatio on boyfriends and realized we couldn't allow that kind of behavior to occur. That was two years ago and nothing has happened at another party that we're aware of since then.

Smokey Mtn High wrote:

fellatio on boyfriends

10/10 dude you're rocking this

They also might encounter crack, you should probably have some of their friends over to experiment with that and learn their limits. They also, undoubtedly, have run into cigarettes so I'm sure you have family smoke sessions. They might even run into a (gasp) black hooker, buy 'em one early on and let them be exposed to worrying about vd.

Nevermind that the rate of alcoholism in Ireland (one of your countries where kids belly up to the bar at an age younger than 21) is in its own league, another country is doing it and we should too. We should also remember that their brains aren't done developing, their hormones are out of control, and their decision-making paradigm is not fully informed, if not right out poor. Alcohol can only help those things, right?

Smoky.. were were rolling, but you went to far and totally ripped the story with that last post.

10/10 on the effort up and to that point.

xenonscreams wrote:

Smokey Mtn High wrote:

fellatio on boyfriends

10/10 dude you're rocking this

This.

Keep em coming. You got any pics of the little c-sucker?

Being asked to drink alcohol at a young age is like being asked to eat vegetables. Most kids don't like either.

Most European countries legally allow 16 year olds to drink beer and other low alcohol drinks. No spirits until 18.

I always used to think it was madness in the UK that you were legally allowed to Marry, have kids, smoke, and fight for your country at 16 but you were too young to vote or have a pint in the pub. 18 being the age.

Fellatio you say, and she'll be getting implants? Holy $hit, any chance I can meet this girl?

We figured being the "cool" parents was the best way to go. Had we tried to lay down hard rules they would have rebelled and possibly even behaved worse.

As an example, my daughter's skills at felating men is known far and wide, throughout not just the school, but the entire county. She routinely performs on teams before basketball and football games to help the boys relax and focus on the game. She has a developed a marketable skill that will serve her well throughout her life. Had we been uptight helicopter parents, where would she be??

Father of two wrote:

I hope this is a troll, 21.

and yet they can buy a gun at 18