i really don't think i could kick my child out at all. that's the bottom line really. i wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

Share the love motha fucka! :lol:

I grew up in a house where a parent was an alcoholic/drug addict and I never knew my grandfather for the same reason. So anways what I'm getting at is this just won't fly. I'd have a long talk with them (with revoking of privleges afterwards) but I'd probably have tried to educate them about drinking beforehand anyways.

I grew up with parents that would allow me to have a beer or a glass of wine with dinner since I was about 15. If I asked for beer for the weekend they would get it for me with the understanding that I would drink resposibly (They knew I could get it off the street and thought it was better to know what I was up to). Some of my friends (whose parents forbade them from touching the stuff) would get beer and drink it as fast as they could just to get pissed. I would drink like my folks and watch these guys make idiots of themselves.

By the time a child gets to the age that they want to drink with their friends they should have at least a groundwork of understanding of the effects of drinking. I think the reactionary, not in my house, kick out the child attitude is over the top and one of the contributing factors to teenage binge drinking.

I with everyone else in that the shit hits the fan if you drink and drive.

My thoughts *exactly*. My parents were (are? Im still underage) the same way, and I am thankful for it.