Where do you stand on teen drinking and did you drink as a teen?

Question

Its just i know alot of teens who drink

Answer 1

I do teen drink. And I think it's fine provided we're not going out and getting wrecked which I used to do.
My turning point came when I completely blacked out. My mum told me I couldn't even turn my head to be sick, and that if she hadn't been there she thought I would have died.
This scared me witless.
The worst thing was my mum had given me the bottle of wine I drunk. She's not irresponsible.. she knew I had sources who would often get me a bottle of vodka if I couldn't get anything else. I told her it was for between a few of us as well. Sadly, I had it myself and didn't have anything to eat that day (because I was at a friends .. not so I'd get drunk)
I was 14 then. I was paraletic.. I had to get put home in a taxi and carried home by my dad. If I had died.. how guilty would my mum have felt?
I saw something very similar happen to a good friend.
Maybe if we'd been educated better about alcohol. Maybe if we'd seen the terrifying consequences. Maybe we wouldn't have ended up like that.
I think schools should do more to show the alarming risks alcohol causes. Not everyone will listen. But it's worth it if even a few people listen.

Also my mum told me 2 real life stories.
Her friend had a party, and another of her friends tried to skip through a field as a shortcut home. Halfway she must have feel asleep. She died from the cold (it was winter).
Another time a different friend got drunk and fell asleep on a doorstep. Someone found him in the morning and rushed him to hospital. Luckily he survived.

Things like this need to stop..

Answer 2

I dont know, as a teen I was blind drunk most of the time from the ages of about 14 to 17, then I got bored with it, I am 48 now, and hardly drink at all, there has to be a middle ground, a glass of wine or two with a meal for a teenager should be the norm, banning something just makes young people do it even more, for the rebel kudos it gives them, getting used to alcohol in reasonable quantities is a good thing in my view, takes all the mystique out of it and makes it ordinary, maybe then we would have more civilised town centres on saturday nights, the only way to stop binge drinking is to make it totally uncool, maybe more mums dads and grandparents should do it, seeing your mum plastered and showing her knickers in town would put young folk off the idea.

Answer 3

I think worrying about whether it is right or wrong is a waste of time. Teens will do it no matter what. What we should be concerned about is educating them so they don't make mistakes. Alcohol is such a taboo in our country, if you travel to Europe it isn't. If you are old enough to see over the bar you can order. They don't have issues with it. Why? Gee I don't know maybe because it isn't a big deal and it's natural so kids don't feel the need to get smashed and then try to drive home so that mom and dad don't ask where the car is.

If we make such a big deal of it being wrong teens will rebel against it. If we educate them and let them know it is okay in moderation, IT WILL SAVE LIVES! Be they from drunk driving or alcohol toxicity.

As far as if I did or didn't... I plead the fifth.

Answer 4

I did drink as a teen. I got myself fairly drunk but did not need help to get home ever.
Perhaps some teens to-day need to learn moderation
I think it is an attitude and education problem. The temperence movement was very strong in UK in Victorian times and still has an influence to-day. Parents need to teach their children that the booze is no big thing but getting filthy drunk is. THis can only be done in a family environment

Answer 5

Teenage drinking isnt frowned upon in the rest of Europe , as it is here.However,the anglo-saxons have had a terrible reputation for heavy drinking since at least roman times
Cant argue with history
Even though largely drunk most of the time,the British Empire was the largest in the world.
Maybe the problem is not that teenagers drink,more that they drink the wrong stuff-stick to real ale and slaughtering fuzzy-wuzzys ,and Britain will be strong again

Answer 6

I drank every friday and saturday from about the age of 13 to 14 and was quite a wild child hit about 18 and screwed the nut a bit still like a drink at the weekend tho (during the week if the footie is on like tonight )

Answer 7

Alcohol affects people's judgement in very bad ways. Drunk one night stands can lead to pregnancy, so add "teen" to that factor, and you have drunken teenagers having sex and getting knocked up. Or teens drinking and thinking it would be a good idea to get behind the wheel of a car. It affects even adults, so teens are even more vulnerable. It should never be allowed.

Answer 8

I lost alot of people from drinking and driving and when i hit about 16 i started going out drinking and driving around in friends' cars and stuff. my parents got worried and got together with my friends' parents and decided that if us kids were going to drink how could they keep us safe (we all had a good relationship with our parents) they let us drink at our house and all the parents were notified, we never got out of hand, or into a car accident. When we were allowed to drink it wasnt fun for us anymore our parents also taught us to drink responsibly and the majority of us now rarely drink anymore. Some will say our parents were wrong to allow us to drink...but they must have done something right since we are all still alive and talking about it 13 years later.

Answer 9

t eenagers should be allowed to drink up to 5% ABV at 15 , drinking in a controlled place such as a youth club. this would teach them how to drink . The sad thing is today's kids are being sold alcohol at 12 by shopkeepers mainly muslim ones who seem to think it's their holy duty to corrupt us. I recently saw 3 girls who i know to be 12 and 13 leaving a store with a bottle of vodka , 2 hours later i saw them in the park ,2 of them could not stand and the other one was offering sex for a fiver.It's a public disgrace that trading standards are targeting supermart's run by multi national's because they do not want to upset the ethnic's.

Answer 10

I was brought up by loving parents that weren't neurotic about stuff and I went with them to the pub at the weekends and I always had a little glass of my mums stout. It was no big deal to me. I got drunk for the first time when I was about 16. I haven't become an alcoholic, neither do I drink heavily. I've brought my children up the same way - my daughters friends were always on street corners drinking cheap cider because their parents were so hung up about it. I told her (and my son) if they wanted to drink alcohol I preferred it to be with me and in a controlled environment. They've both turned out well-balanced individuals with a healthy respect for alcohol. Parents dont realise that by putting on restrictions it only makes alcohol seem all the more desirable. If it's available to them (in a conrolled way) it wont seem like such a big deal.