The Responsibility Project

1. Teach Your Children Well

   We teach our children in many ways, including by example. Our children learn how to respond to things like injuries, bad news, rudeness, in part by how parents react and behave. So, since alcohol is a part of our culture, and it’s here to stay, what better way to show our children how to drink responsibility then to show them ourselves? I wouldn’t recommend a parent with a drinking problem trying this, but by showing children how to maintain a healthly relationship with alcohol, maybe we can reduce the risk of alcoholism and excessive drinking in their future. Isn’t some cautionary education better than nothing for all young people? We really do need to teach our children, that is, our older children, how to drink in moderation, to never drink and drive, not to drink when one day they become pregnant, only to drink while eating, to drink water along with alcohol, to drink out of the proper glass, to drink to celebrate special occasions, to always have a clever, cheerful toast in mind, and not to call attention to yourself while drinking. You know from being a teenager that most things that you were denied you found intriguing. You wanted access to it to solve the mysteries around it. Knowledge is power. We should teach our older children how to enjoy alcohol and how to protect themselves from its misuse, the same way we teach them how to be responsible with an automobile, electricity, fire, money, etc. so they have power over it and it never over powers them.

   • twkae
   • 4 months ago

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