DISQUS

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  • Chuck · 1 year ago
    When I was 12 or so, my parents started letting me have a small glass of wine with dinner sometimes (not all the times that they drank with dinner, just some of them--but it was at arbitrary times, not "every Thanksgiving" or something). I think that was an appropriate age to start on such a course: any earlier, and you're still a little kid who thinks half the stuff you taste is disgusting. Also, it makes for a nice little bit of "adulthood" for an adolescent.
  • Louis Krodel · 1 year ago
    I was raised having small amounts of beer on holidays as a child. I had my first martini at about 12 (did not like it!). However addiction (alcoholism) is an inherited disorder and I was lucky that I never developed an addiction -- many of my cousins became alcoholics. I would suggest caution giving a child alcohol if there is a history of addiction in the family.
  • Joe Power · 1 year ago
    You both make excellent points, which demonstrates just how complicated this issue is.