Should I Steer Clear of Drinking in Front of My Children?
Do not look as if you're enjoying it -- at least not if you have children when you are drinking wine in your home. Just how much you drink, how many times you say: 'Ah, that's nice,' while drinking and whether you use alcohol as a prize or coping mechanism can encourage all teenagers to drink, according to a study by the Institute of Alcohol Studies.
In case you think it's OK for teens to drink, the Department of Health advises children have a life before one drink a week and age 15 until they are 18. In 2009, '' Prof Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer at the time, warned that "exposing children to drink-fuelled events" was among the causes of the UK's drinking problem.
The solution
This report appears. Parents often assume their children do not detect their drinking, but, alas, they do. The report, which included a number such as focus groups, surveys, and a public question, found that half of the parents were tipsy facing the child, while almost a third said they'd been drunk.
Kids can tell the difference in levels of inebriation (the difference been merry and depriving it), and one in five stated they had been embarrassed by their own parent's drinking, while others stated that parents had forgotten their maternity or argued with them longer than normal.
In case you've got a parenting style that is warm, but clear expectations for your children's behavior, this can protect your kids from drinking, even if you overdo it yourself. The report has clear guidelines for parents: do not glamorize alcohol, discuss its dangers as part of a dialog about alcohol -- and do not bang on about your hangovers because your children will then think that it's normal to toss up and have a headache after a drinking session.
But according to Prof Ingeborg Rossow in the Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research, who had been the lead writer of a systematic review three years ago on parental drinking, the evidence is not strong enough for any recommendation: "Despite many research publications on this topic, there's rather little we know about causal influences of parental drinking and parenting behavior on children's alcohol use." And that's the truth -- it is an association, not proof of proof. Alcohol advertising, peer pressure can also be in play. But, even so, parents that drink before their children and overdo it, can make their kids feel dangerous and their ones mortified. Treat parenting like driving -- do not go over the limit.
