even one drink in front of your kids is just wrong. you never know how much alcohol it will take to be drunk maybe today it will be 2 drinks maybe tomorrow it will be just one. drinking alcohol is for adults therefore should not be done around kids.


you gonna have sex around your kids to just to let them know its ok to have sex with someone you love.

no but are you going to forbid the topic in your household so they never know anything about it?

I don't think drinking a glass of wine of champagne or even a beer in front of your children is wrong, as long as it's part of the proper setting, and you don't get drunk or even tipsy. Many people drink to relax and hang out with other adult friends.

Sex on the other hand, is a private act for most people, not a public one, where as drinking is a public activity, unless you're drinking at a romantic dinner.

Im torn between what Eiri and Jessesgirl said.

I have no problem having a cocktail or glass of wine in front of my children. I don't have a problem stopping at one or two either. We talk very openly about drinking, and why it is important to wait until you are older. What drinking can do, and why, if we go out, only one of the parents is allowed to drink. I think it is good for children to see that normal people drink alcohol and can do so inmoderation without getting out of hand. I honeslty believed as a child that people only drank to get drunk, because that extreme was the only drinking I ever saw growing up.

my parents would drink in social settings when we were like 14 or 15 yrs old, when we were old enough to watch our selves like 16 17 or 18 they would go out and get drunk , get a cab home and get a cab the next day to go pick up there car, but i think i was like 18 when ive actually seen them drunk but i was old enough to know all about it then, Me and my hubby get a babysitter and go out and drink and they watch the kids overnight. We have drank at the house before but i will not open a drink until after the kids are asleep. I know whenjordynne wakes up and that joseph sleeps all night so my drinking accomodates there schedules i wouldnt get sloppy drunk at the house with my kids in the house, ive gotten quite drunk at times but jason was sober. otherwise i wouldnt do it. this past weekend we had my friend watch the kids and sat at the house and drank and watched movies. although we coulda got really drunk but i was havign anxiety so ended up not drinking much but it was nice to just sit back relax and drink and watch movies and not worrying about jordynne waking up or something, i still have 3 smirnoffs in my fridge they might end up sitting in there until jason gets back unless i go and tip em out at some point, since i am home alone with the kids now i wont be drinkin at all.
I think a glass of wine with dinner is fine when yoru kids are old enough to understand what your drinking and how to drink responsibly.
Ugh i would never let teenagers get drunk at my house thats just wrong, my mom lets my brother and his gf drink theya re both 20 yrs old. I think its stupid my sister hates it that they are allowed to do that because they can get into alot of trouble not to mention my brother is already on probation.
Having a drink or 2 at a cookout or wine at dinner when you go out or something is totally different then getting sloppy drunk in front of your kids. My sister did stuff like that a while ago. but her daughter slept throught he night then but she would start drinking before her daughter was in bed and make me put her daughter to bed because she was to drunk to do it, i always waited until her daughter was in bed to start drinking although i coulda drank when i felt like it , im not tristens mother she is but i took the responsibility.

We drink sometimes. Never EVER with Gabe in the house. We get a reliable sitter overnight if we feel like drinking, even just a little. I don't ever want to subject him to that sort of thing. It will be discussed when he's old enough to know about it.. But the way I grew up is not the way I want Gabe to grow up. My parents are raging alcoholics. Still are. Always will be. They'd be completely plastered with my sisters & I in the house for as long as I can remember. I have no respect for them after seeing them in that kind of state. It's never something I want Gabe to see.

I'm almost eighteen years old, and my parents have NEVER drank. Period. Not ever. Not just "not in front of me." I am the fourth of six kids, and I don't know whether this is because of our religious affiliation (we're Mormon), or because of my parents never having drunk, but none of us drink or have ever drunk. Us kids are 23, 21, 19, 17, 15 and 9

I think you can drink if frontof children ...drink moderately that is...i wouldnt go around getting drunk in front of them...but they have to learn the differences between children and adults

my parents aren't really drinkers, the only thing i've really seen them drink is a glass of wine and very rarely they will have a cocktail, i never really learned about alcohol other than it was "bad" until college..which of course being sheltered for 18 years was my time to test this..so basically i ended up wasting first semester of my freshman year partying and drinking and being dumb and i feel like alot of that was due to the fact that i was so sheltered..i got it out of my system and was soooo over the whole party scene after just a semester...it wore me out...i think drinking in excess is not a good idea...however i dont believe you should shelter your child from it, bc eventually they will learn on their own as i did...you should teach your children the dangers of drinking and tell them that if they do drink to drink in moderation, there are many health hazards that come with excessive drinking...i learned the hard way