Parents of teens when it comes to educating your teen on the dangers of alcohol?

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Which describes your feelings the best?
1. Zero tollerance!
2. Drinking is only permitted at home and under my supervision.
3. Your child has watched given family member struggle with alcholism and you don't think you have anything to worry about.
4. Your child sees you drink and you feel you are responisible with the alcohol. You have had many talks with them about over doing it.
5. Zero tollerance until the age of 21 then dear old dad takes kid to bar for the first time.
6. Your child needs to see drunk to an extreem in your mind say a hospital, homeless shelter, or at the very least a youtube of a drunk crash.
7. Moderation is taught!
8. If your kid came home drunk you would allow the cops to lock up your kid for the night so it sinks in they could go to jail for it.
9. Other, and please explain.

As for me I am hoping my kids all get to volunteer in a hospital ER for awhile so they can see some extreems of drunk.
 
Zero tolerance
My son has seen some of his friends, especially the girls drunk and throwing up all over, that was enough to turn him away from drinking, he said it was disgusting
 
4.

My daughter has seen moderate drinking since she was very small ... we are Jewish so wine is used ritually. I occassionally drink wine with dinner or during the evening, and hubby has a beer from time to time.

As a teenager she is permitted to drink at home -- wine or beer with dinner or with religious rituals, but she doesnt' like it, so she doesn't.

She is also well aware of the stupidity of excessive alcohol use, and we discuss it often. I am very confident that she doesn't get drunk with her friends or do other stupid things like that. (She does OTHER stupid things from time to time, but nothing related to drugs or alcohol.)
 
My sister and i are two very different people so my mom had to go about it in two different ways. While we both have seen my mom drink and we both have seen drunk people acting completely idiotic and do stupid things, she still needed to go about it in different ways.

My sister always hung out with people that were drinking so of course, she started drinking too. So my mom said, you can drink in our house only under my supervision. And it worked for her.

For me... (I'm 18) Well first, i have celiacs disease and i'm allergic to the barley that's in most alcohol so that pretty much takes care of it. But even if i wasn't allergic, i don't agree with drinking underage and i decided early on that alcohol just isn't for me. I don't like when my mom drinks because i feel her money can be better spent (this sprouting from her always saying she doesn't have enough money for the necessities when she needs them), i don't like when my sister drinks because she was underage when she started and is still only 20. My friends drink, but i don't hang out with them when they do. I want to have fun but i want to remember it in the morning...i don't want to and don't need to get drunk to have a good time and i'll be damned if i get drunk and act like a fool. My fiance feels the exact same way. My mom never had to worry about me, never had to set rules for me, because she knew i would never give in.
 
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