for the parents here..

have you or would you let you child when say 15 to 16 have a drink or few of alcohol or smoke some weed with you?
Seems to be a mixed bag type of thing. Many of my mates who are parents straight out refuse to do that and thats cool and whatever.
My parents let me have some drinks and some weed when I was 15 but only when they were around and only at the house.
Their logic being if you're going to do it, at least they would be there to know we were safe

thoughts?

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CopperCicada · M

It depends on whether you think alcohol is a food or a drug.

I grew up having alcohol as a food from a very early age. I'd get a taste of almost anything. At one point, a little teeny tiny glass of wine with dinner. Why? Well we were eating full Italian dinners. Apertivo. Antipasto. Primi. Secondi. Contorni. Some red was really part of it.

It was the same with beer at family gatherings. Get a sip from an adult whose lap you were sitting on. I have a picture of my cousina with a PBR. Walking around the barbeque like she's 5 going on 35. I got sips of spirits, liquors, cocktails.

Strangely none of us have substance problems. I did some damage in my youth. But that's in my genetics.

Torsten · 36-40, M

@CopperCicada Alcohol is a liquid, so therefore not food. It is technically a drug. So is caffeine technically also