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Kids allowed to sip alcohol more likely to drink as teens, study says

By John Johnson

Published April 01, 2015
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Kids allowed to sip alcohol more likely to drink as teens: study

Letting kids take a sip isn't necessarily harmless, according to a new study. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Greg Kreller,File)

Middle-schoolers who take the occasional sip of wine or beer are more likely to drink on their own as they become teens, a new study suggests. The research out of Brown University merely notes the association and isn't asserting that parents who allow the sipping are doing a bad thing, notes a post at EurekaAlert.

Still, the lead researcher says it should at least sound a note of caution about the so-called European model—the idea that letting young kids indulge a little will destigmatize alcohol and make them more responsible drinkers later.

 
 

"We need to be very careful not to assume that early alcohol consumption will somehow protect children or teach them how to drink safely," Kristina Jackson tells LiveScience.

Researchers followed about 560 sixth-graders in Rhode Island over three years and found that the early sippers were about five times more likely to have had a full drink by ninth grade (26 percent of them had done so) than their peers.

They were also about four times more likely to have gotten drunk (9 percent) or to have engaged in binge drinking. "I think the most important thing is to make sure that children know when drinking alcohol is acceptable and when it is not," Jackson tells CNN.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/04/01/kids-allowed-to-sip-alcohol-more-likely-to-drink-as-teens-study/



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I totally disagree with this. I was allowed sips of beer/wine/champagne and it didn't cause me to drink as a teen. The opposite. I barely drank before I was 21. I never had a fake ID, I never had someone go buy for me. Alcohol was no big deal to me, so there was no pull to it. My parents had a fully stocked bar in our basement, no locking liquor cabinet either. The basement was where we hung out in high school and we never touched it.

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Same here, I was free to have a drink at home. It took that "forbidden fruit" aspect out of drinking (because as a teen, you want to do stuff that your parents don't allow)

Many other kids I knew would go to parties just to drink and get drunk. I never did, because I was taught to drink responsibly and in great moderation for pleasure, not "drunkeness"

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It just doesn't seem likely to me.

When my boys were teens, I wasn't drinking.

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I think its important to teach kids about drinking. That means modeling good behavior and slowly allowing them to have some at home. Rather than say "Your 21, now go try it!"

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I started late...after college. It was like, "Wow! This is great!!"

I think if I had been introduced, I would have been used to it.

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If you read the full study, you will see that they interviewed 600ish students in one school in Rhode Island. Not for nothing, but this does not make a true scientific study.

And even the study's authors recognized that culture/finances/etc plays a huge part, when they compared Northern Europe (Ireland, GB, etc) to Southern Europe.

It isn't so much about having those sips, as the relationships with alcohol these parents giving the sips had. Now, if the authors tracked the parent's alcohol use/abuse AND took a large sample from around the country, THEN AND ONLY THEN would I give it credence.

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We teach not to drink at all. We teach self control.

Yes. I have drank.

Yes. I expect my kids will try it at some point.

No. I won't teach them how.

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I thought Jesus turned water to wine...

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