Watch that beer
I've always thought that I'd be super smart when I have teenagers who might be tempted to sneak a sip of beer or wine (I'm being generous and saying a "sip," when I know it might be more.) But last night, during the Super Bowl, a group of three third graders and one second grader gathered around the beer in my house and one apparently tried to open one with his hands -- and not a screw top. I say apparently because we're not exactly sure what happened, but after talking to the boys and piecing together the story, we think that was the case. Yikes -- fortunately we caught them and nothing happened. I don't think -- or I LIKE to think -- that they wouldn't have actually tried the beer -- but who knows! Lesson learned! Watch your beer, no matter what your child's age.
How interesting -- I always
How interesting -- I always wondered if the no-taboo approach works. Glad to hear it did for you. It's time for me to start thinking more about all of this. How did this happen? I feel like my kids should still be newborns!
Kristen De Deyn Kirk
Editor, Mytidewatermoms.com
Funny!
Had they opened one and been brave enough to try it, they probably would have gone, "ewwwwwwww!" like I did when I snuck a sip of my dad's beer at that age! It sure did cure me of my curiosity, though. LOL
But--I was raised with a no-taboo policy about alcohol, since my dad's from Spain and there was wine on the table at every meal. It worked for our house--kept it from being "forbidden fruit" when I was a teen!