Children and Alcohol
What is going on with children and alcohol lately? Since when did little kids ages 10 and 11 start drinking hard liquor and/or beer? The people we might look towards to blame are the parents. Who is out there teaching our kids these bad habits after all? You can’t blame it on the television. At the heart of it all, it’s having a strong parental figure to teach you the basics of knowing what is right from what is wrong that is going to have the biggest impact in terms of influencing our children to make the right decisions. For example, if a child sees his or her parent smoking a cigarette, what do you think the chances are that they, too, will begin smoking? Similarly, if a child sees his or her parent passed out on the couch each night from drinking and partying, do you think that they will think it’s ok to drink and party? Probably.