Drinking and Summer Vacation

momofthreeboys
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:14:05 +0000

I’ll give other people’s kids a beer if they are over 21 but not if they are under 21. Interestingly, friends of ours gave my S1 beers in front of us without asking even though he wasn’t 21 so clearly attitudes vary. S1 broke a bone biking home under the influence between freshman year so yes we have experienced alcohol injuries. If we’re out to dinner with the kids and drink of course we flip the keys to one of the kids. All our friends do this. Not good to get a DUI when one is in their 50s when you have perfectly capable non-drinkers to drive. If the grandparents happen to be part of the dinner, we have one of the kids drive them, too, so they can have a martini or two. There is really zero tolerance in our area for alcohol and driving and that’s fine, I’ve no problem with that. I know there were times in our early adulthood where we should not have been driving but did…times they are a changing.