Blog Post #6

Many parents drink in front of their children and never sit down and talk to them about the negative or positive effects of it.  If asked they prefer to say they can do it because they are "grown ups" and can do things the kids can't.  Then the kids become teenagers and get to the point where they feel like they are old enough to be considered adults. So they engage in under-age drinking without thinking about the decision they're making. All they can think of is that they are acting like the adults they want to be. Had they been told when they were younger that drinking can be done safely, legally, and for good reasons, they may have waited for a better time to do so. I've grown up with cousins and friends who were given the opportunity to drink because their parents want to make them happy and treat them like adults even though they still live off of them. The parents do it because when they were young, their parents did the same. My parents were raised the same, but raising me and my two younger brothers, they have always told us to at least wait until we are of legal drinking age, and even then we should only do it as a way to have fun every once in a while.