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Teens Drink, ‘Cool’ Parents Pay the Price

June 18, 2008 - 12:46 am - by Michele Catalano
Ciscokid
2008-06-18 08:18:30

HardHeadedWoman. Very good point also. Being a divorced father I regret to say – lived it, witnessed it but never bought the T-shirt. My eldest son’s mother bought booze for him, he smuggled to a “supposedly” adult supervised party in high school. Kids are smart. They waited for the adult to go to bed before breaking out the booze. He’s lucky to be alive twice now. He drank over 20 shots of tequila “in a quick time contest” (mother bought it “personally” for him along with a twelve pack of beer) before blacking out and passing out on a sofa. Lucky he was on his stomach when he puked. Actually it was lucky he did puke. Fast forward to college and he fell two stories off a balcony drunk out of his mind. He was knocked out cold & lucky to be alive. So to all those parents for whatever reason, think they’re being cool or my kid would never do that better think again. You don’t know anything what kids will do “given the opportunity” no matter how smart you think they are. I counseled him till I was blue in the face and also lead by example on drinking responsibly. His Mom had other Idea’s. God looks after drunks, idiots & children may be true but I don’t advise testing it.