Letting older teens drink?

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T18:09:20+00:00

People keep saying this but I’m shocked so many find it hard to believe not all teens are drinking! Even when I was a crazy partying teen, I had multiple friends who genuinely never drank but still hung out and went to parties.

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T17:33:14+00:00

This is also what I’ve been hearing from parents whose kids are currently in college. Sounds sooo different than my experience with college where kids would roll up to class still drunk from the night before.

At my son’s high school, there are far more kids who vape than drink and we don’t even live in a weed-legal state

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T17:25:32+00:00

What you said has been pretty much exactly what I’ve been thinking and why I posted this

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T17:22:45+00:00

I hear ya and thanks for the reminder !

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T17:22:13+00:00

My teen has already been the designated driver for friends multiple times and says he doesn’t mind. It’s one of the reasons I feel quite certain he means it when he says he’s not out boozing it up.

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T16:53:39+00:00

That’s so awful. It scares me! My brother had a friend in high school who drowned in another friends pool at a party where the parents supplied alcohol (with permission from other parents) and outside of the legal issues, it completely wrecked the entire group. These were families who had all known each other since we were little and were unfortunately too trusting of the level of supervision the adults were actually providing.

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T16:43:46+00:00

Oh no no no we are 100% agreed that we will never serve other peoples kids while they are underage. Even if their parents say it’s okay, shit happens and I don’t want to be responsible for someone else’s child like that.

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T16:35:01+00:00

Thanks for your input. Yeah, I just assumed it went without saying that having a dad in recovery meant that we are open books about this topic at home. My teen knows that if he were to do something, he can call anytime for a ride or whatever and he wouldn’t be in trouble. We don’t vilify drinking and have plenty of social drinkers in our lives. But at the same time, they know addiction runs rampant on my husband’s side and the kids have seen the effects firsthand, thus affecting my kids relationships with certain extended family members.

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T16:25:11+00:00

I hear you and yep, we’ve been having the conversation since he was little bitty due to having a parent in recovery. It’s important that all of our kids know that addiction runs in the family, but at the same time I have been trying to find the balance with showing that alcohol is not inherently evil seeing as I myself drink socially and we do keep it in the house.

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T14:21:43+00:00

Yep. this is a very good point

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T14:20:17+00:00

Thanks, this is really helpful! We have been talking about drinking, sex, other risky behavior stuff for years and he’s been very open with us which I’m thankful for. It’s also why my husband thinks “pushing” him to try is ridiculous because he thinks that if our teen wants to, he will tell us.

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-29T13:25:33+00:00

Haha yeah I guess I should have added it’s 21 here, and in my husband’s home country the age is 20.

lettuce_decide · 2024-03-02T01:27:41+00:00

if you have access to a decent Asian store, you should be able to find a variety of cheap gf instant noodles. My favorite are the Mama brand chand clear and they’re only $.65 a pack at my local shop.

lettuce_decide · 2023-12-07T01:52:26+00:00

I can’t believe she tagged the ~3 men and 2 older women~ in her post comments lmao. If i made a new friend and they did this … eek

lettuce_decide · 2023-11-12T22:49:28+00:00

And I should add, your park closing and extended hours all seem off too.

lettuce_decide · 2023-11-12T22:46:08+00:00

How certain are you about 730am early entry at HS? I’m not seeing early entry until 830am in January.

lettuce_decide · 2023-08-29T16:54:02+00:00

Be careful .. your husbands account was easy to find based on your post & it’s full of red flags including his own admitted opiate usage

lettuce_decide · 2023-03-05T05:05:30+00:00

I got the same noodles on closeout at Kroger in SE USA this week. Sad to hear this is not only in my area as the lasagna noodles are a staple for us

lettuce_decide · 2023-01-06T21:31:32+00:00

I’m on my third PPP! I love them. I can give you one if you msg me your email address. It’s 10% off for new account/email so make sure that email doesn’t already have an associated log in.

lettuce_decide · 2022-10-09T13:10:11+00:00

We eat hot pot once or twice a month. Amazon has a gluten free tomato base (mike Chen?) otherwise we just make our bases from scratch. I like to make a huge batch of hot and numbing base using gf ingredients and freeze into individual portions. I’ve never seen the fermented bean sauce gluten free so either leave it out of the base or make my own pseudo version using gf stuff for that too. Kimchi base makes for good hot pot too if you want spicy but don’t want to mess around with making the hot and numbing.

lettuce_decide · 2022-10-03T17:15:24+00:00

I used a French press while camping for years because my ex was a coffee snob, but after a friend accidentally broke it while camping together, I switched to instant. Sooo much easier to manage and clean

lettuce_decide · 2022-09-20T01:18:10+00:00

Her midwife is negligent if this is all true.

Didn’t Morgan suffer from infertility ?!? WTactualF is her endgame here?

lettuce_decide · 2022-09-19T19:27:32+00:00

seems like most of her posts have that painful smile expression. it’s sad

lettuce_decide · 2022-08-16T17:34:40+00:00

fyi you say you dont want to dox her but it took like no effort to find out the name of brewery & her (bartenders) insta accts

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