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You could have sex and get married by the age of 16, yet you couldn't watch a pornographic movie until you were 18, nor could you drink or smoke a cigarette/cigar to celebrate either of the above mentioned moments
| Sorry, that's just too funny to me...
"Let's have a cigarette to celelbrate watching this porno flick!"
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Must refrain...
Drinking... A most interesting topic indeed...
I guess a case could be made in either direction; however it is what it is.
I've tried to HONESTLY educate my children on many things. Drinking is one of them.
I, Like, Manny have allowed my oldest child who is 15 to have very limited amounts of various alchohol's to "get a taste" of it in my presence. I figure if I take the mistique out of drinking then it's just boiled down to what it is...
drinking and nothing more.
I try to teach him that one or two is acceptable; getting so hammered that your not sure what planet your on anymore is not.
I let him know that I am guilty of the latter. I want him to know that my words have credability. I let him know that I'm am not proud of that time in my life when I was drinking to excess.
I let him know that I'm telling him these things because I know he will do it. He of course tells me that he wont but I know better. I just want him to know what to expect and how to behave.
I stress that if at any time he has had more then 2 drinks and he's driving; DO NOT DRIVE.. CALL ME, HIS MOM, ANYONE JUST DON'T DRIVE!
I let him know that drunk driving is not funny and it KILLS! It's one of the most preventable crimes on the planet and it's up to him to be man enough to keep it from happening.
I also let him know that regardless of what happend to him should he choose to be stupid enough to drink and drive; the A** Whipping he'll receive from me would be of Biblical proportion should I ever find out he did such a stupid and irresponsible thing.
I let him know that I'd fully support the death penalty for drunk driving when you kill innocent people because of your own stupidity.
I also let him know that although I'm not proud of my "Drinking days" I am proud of the fact that I never drove drunk. I used to sleep it off in the backseat of my truck in the bar parking lot!
I figure if I'm truthful with him and arm him with my life's expirences then just maybe he'll be Ok.
I also explained to him how terrible a feeling it is to have your stomach violently emptied after having too much to drink.
I told him if he's smart this will only have to happen once for him to never want it to happed again...
I could go on and on, I'm sure that those of us with "LIFE" under our belts understand fully just what it is that I'm getting at..
I just hope and pray that all of my children will turn out Ok.
As for the original question that Collin asked I think that it boils down to maturity.
I'd suspect that the lawmakers who made the legal drinking age 21 were intending to make us all wait until we were old enough and mature enough to drink. Sadly I think that they got it wrong.
If we all had to wait until we were mature enough to drink we'd all be 35 before we had that first legal drink.
I think it all starts at home; and if were honest with our children and they have any commen sense at all things will be fine.