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.
