What are parents whose kids drink in high school doing or thinking?

katiebee
Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:58:30 +0000

regarding getting roo and from these places, i am definitely not irresponsible-i take the subway and taxis everywhere that i got when i’ve been drinking. if i ever drive with someone, i make sure it is someone that i trust and who i KNOW has not been drinking. trust me, no one who i know and trust would drink or drive.

i’d just like to reiterate than i am mainly relaying my “story” just to give you an idea that of the students who drink and party regularly, not all of us are stupid about it. while we acknowledge that drinking is not a healthy habit, we are at least doing it in a way that we feel comfortable with and are dealing with our own actions etc. my main point is that teenage drinking will never stop, and so therefore the most realistic way to handle it is not through preaching, but through realistic education. just like how abstinence-only sex ed will never be effective with teenagers, neither will the preaching of alcohol abstinence.