Enginerd

2-5 drinks per week. Gave my 17 year old his first beer. Let him get drunk at a camping trip last year. He's doesn't have an addictive personality and seems to hold his liquor well. I think abstenance as a policy is a huge failure. Besides he's headed to college this year and better know his limits.

KathyBatesel

I order 2 or 3 mixed drinks when I play pool on Thursday nights, and I have one mixed drink on Fridays when I meet with another group of friends. I sometimes will drink more, maybe once or twice a year. When my kids were small, I NEVER drank alcohol in front of them, but I never pretended to be a teetotaler either. The youngest is turning 17 soon, and she has been present on our Friday meetups three different times and has seen me drink to that extent, but otherwise, I don't think she has.

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Dr. Rockstar

That doesn't sound bad to me at all. If you're making beer as a hobby, then the kids are around it all the time. So there's no reason to sneak away and drink with their friends. There's no "forbidden fruit." That's why I tend to get bugged with people have liquor cabinets but refuse to drink anything in front of their kids. They think they're being responsible, but what they're really doing is telling their kids that drinking is a sign of adulthood, so in their minds it becomes a rite of passage instead.

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But I do know I was stone-cold sober when she was conceived!!!!

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