or is it old wives 'carrots for night vision' type bullshit?.
Carrots have vitamin A in them, which is what your eyes use to see in the dark. The chemical in your eyes is destroyed by a bright light which is why your night vision takes so long to acclimatize but disappears instantly. The more Vit.A in your system the quicker your eyes can re-absorb it.
Is there some kind of actual research to back up this idea of letting kids drink is good as it's not the forbidden fruit, or is it old wives 'carrots for night vision' type bullshit?.
My parents were a little bit lax with booze. Weirdly, they were JWs, too and also rather weirdly didn't like the idea of depriving us kids of Xmas. So, every February or thereabouts we would have what was eventually termed The Celebration (doubt the JWs would've approved) and we would...uh...celebrate for a solid two weeks. Within that time my brothers and I were each given a bottle of homemade wine to consume over the course of those two weeks. Nice stuff, too. But I must've been about 8 or 9 which meant that my younger brother would've been about 5 or 6. Not on, really but there you go.
Anyway, I started drinking heavily at 12 and over the course of the next few decades went on to try just about all the drugs that were available to me. Aside - you know you're getting a bit old when you read a list of drugs in some news report on societal harms and realise not only are there drugs on there you haven't yet tried, but there's some you haven't even heard of.
LSS - My mum smoked and drank when pregnant and continued to ply us with the booze once out of the womb and I haven't turned out too bad. It's a miracle I haven't overdosed yet TBH but I guess the earlier years set up a kind of high tolerance for just about anything, so no - stuffing the cat with cream doesn't work with all people, albeit an extreme example in my case.
I thought it was obligatory to allow your children to get a "moustache" from the froth of your pint. Lil j has been on it a while.
Unfortunately I now have apologise at social events because my little bugger has taken to mine sweeping! I excuse him by telling any witnesses that he's Northern European and his DNA is preprogrammed .
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Let all three of our girls have a sip of whatever we have been drinking from about 4/5, they are now aged 7, 17 and 20. Neither of the eldest really showed any interest till they were 16, and from then we happily let them have a 'couple' at home or when out in pubs. If they were heading to friends we would also grab them some booze to take, in line with discussion with friends parents.
The 17 year old came to the Derby v Forest match with me and a mate Sunday. She started with a half with breakfast in Whetherspoons at about 9.30am, and then a few more along the way before kick off at just gone 1pm. By the time we went for some post match food she decided to move onto soft drinks. Wish I was as sensible.
