Teenage drinking

[shillelagh]

According to a report by the rowntree foundation teenagers are twice as likely to get drunk if their parents get drunk ..

BBC News - Parents' behaviour 'can influence teen drinking'

and it also says that the younger kids are introduced to alcohol the more likely theyre going to get drunk ...

now i can remember aged 7 drinking 'champagne' in otherwords babycham (can you call babycham alcohol ) .... i was allowed to have 2 or 3 of them .. when we had family parties at home at christmas or birthdays etc ... and being in the pub across the road with half a lager .. which lasted me all night ... and a glass of coke on the table .. if the police came in the coke was mine .... aged about 11 or 12 ... and mum & dad was there ...

but yet i very rarely drink now ... when im in pubs or restaurants etc its orange and soda or britvic orange and lemonade .. ok in my younger days aged from 16 upwards i was out round accy town centre friday and saturday night ... and half a lager in the round ... broadway, corners, hope & anchor, bees knees, shifters/rumours etc .. but it wasnt often i was drunk ... that was when i graduated up to drinking shorts ...

but do you think kids are influenced by their parents about drinking alcohol they get drunk or might take the opposite view - see their mum & dad falling down, throwing up etc ... and say i dont want to be like that and not drink ... .

[cashman]

to be honest i think many kids are influenced by parents/example etc, in many aspects of life, some choose to ignore, many think thats the way life is,which can be a good example or bad.

[garinda]

Starts with an innocent Babycham.

Ends rolling on the floor, with a pint of absinthe.

[garinda]

Children in southern Europe grow up with alcohol.

I've yet to see any Italian or Spanish teenage lager louts.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by garinda

Starts with an innocent Babycham.

Ends rolling on the floor, with a pint of absinthe.

she never looked back after watching "Edna The Inebriate Woman"

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by garinda

Starts with an innocent Babycham.

Ends rolling on the floor, with a pint of absinthe.

and after that i never touched alcohol for 3 1/2 years .....

[garinda]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

and after that i never touched alcohol for 3 1/2 years .....

Only because you were still drunk for two years, and then had an eighteen month hangover.



Accy Web meets.

Happy days.

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by garinda

Only because you were still drunk for two years, and then had an eighteen month hangover.



Accy Web meets.

Happy days.

so thats why i said yeah when the spugster asked me out .. i was still drunk ...

tis 4 years ago .. and i aint ever gonna live it down am i?

[Margaret Pilkington]

We were allowed alcohol at Christmas(a damp glass - that was a thimbleful of wine/sherry) and family celebrations.
I can remember my grandad allowing me to have the froth off his beer(that had been bought at the Off Sales counter in the pub and brought home in a white enamel jug - he sent my grandma for it...a bit like Andy Capp).

Yes, I have over indulged in the past, but never so that I did not know what I was doing, and not to the point of weeing myself or vomitting in the street.
I can't remember ever setting out to get 'Bladdered'.
These days my alcohol consumption is minimal.......an odd glass of wine....I could easily live without it.

My own feeling is that alcohol has become very cheap and accessible, and this is part of the problem.
Lots of young people have a few drinks and are already well on the way to being inebriated befroe they set foot out of their home.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

i aint ever gonna live it down am i?

No.



I only remind you because I can imagine myself doing the same thing.

'Not that strong.'

'Give me another.'

'Can't see why Van Gogh was such a light weight, and cut off his ear after drinking this stuff.'

I once did something similar with a Vindaloo.

Telling the people I was with that I loved hot food.

First few mouthfuls were ok, until it hit the spot, and I projectile vomited over my unimpresed friends.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

so thats why i said yeah when the spugster asked me out .. i was still drunk ...

tis 4 years ago .. and i aint ever gonna live it down am i?

So, Spuggie had his beer goggles on, eh.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

and after that i never touched alcohol for 3 1/2 years .....

Bet Spugs is glad about that Jen