# Parents: To what extent if at all, do you drink around your children?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 3, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-to-what-extent-if-at-all-do-you-drink-around-your-children/584238 "2011-06-03T19:59:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-to-what-extent-if-at-all-do-you-drink-around-your-children/584238/41 "2011-06-07T08:41:06Z")

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My neighbor, who is a staunch right wing religious conservative, does all of his drinking where he has all of his fun. In the closet.

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**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-to-what-extent-if-at-all-do-you-drink-around-your-children/584238/42 "2011-06-07T17:07:05Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> Come on, my parents drank around me and at no time did I ever think they were behaving badly - there is absolutely nothing wrong with a beer with lunch on a summers day, or while doing yard work. Nothing wrong with a gin and tonic before dinner while grilling a steak, or wine with dinner, or a bloody mary with sunday brunch. As long as nobody is driving, no big whoop.  
> Kids brought up around moderate and sensible alcohol use and who get a chance to try it once and a while do not treat it as ‘forbidden fruit’ and do stupid stuff, in general. In groups of moronic kids with peer pressure they may do something stupid, but in general kids are pretty sensible around what is familiar.

My thoughts exactly. In fact, it is a good idea to specifically teach them certain things like: This is for grownups, mostly, although we may give you a taste from time to time. If you drink too much of this you will be sick. Too much can affect your brain and let you do things you would be sorry for later. They should be taught the difference between wine, beer and hard liquor.

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