Hard News: We'll find out where all the parties are
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Has it struck anyone that many of the "we went to random parties and drank far too much and we're OK" comments are very similar to the "I was whacked with [fill in implement of your choice] as a kid and I'm OK" anecdotes?
Yes it had occurred to me. It could be argued that heavy drinking is victimless. Or not. I went to the Newtown New world yesterday. On entry I was confronted by a huge stack of piss (grown ups drinks) rather than the traditional fruit and veggies. I wonder if using the same corporate marketing approach could also teach children to use other drugs moderately. I doubt it, but I also doubt that the average teen binge drinker understands that alcohol is as Potentially addictive as heroin. and that some of New Zealand's more serious violent crimes are committed under its influence. The basset road machine gun murders doesn't seem so fresh fruit and veggie. Maybe if P was marketed by Lion Nathan we would see a perceived drop in it's negative impact.
By using the logic: "The europeans give there children small amounts of alcohol; so should we" Is truly bent. It is not so long ago the europeans and New Zealanders gave there children opiate/alcohol mixtures.
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Has it struck anyone that many of the "we went to random parties and drank far too much and we're OK" comments are very similar to the "I was whacked with [fill in implement of your choice] as a kid and I'm OK" anecdotes?
I had thought that the point of the anecdotes was that
a)binge drinking among teens is not new, and
b)when we were kids the drinking age was twenty, yet I celebrated my 16th birthday in the Old Bank.Oddly enough there aren't many mothers out there willing to share "I was f#cking like a bunny as a kid and I'm OK" anecdotes with their friends/daughters.
I have been asked how I'm going to bring down the moral authoritay on my kids considering my own teenage years. And okay, I don't have a plan, but I'm not going to tell them that having teenage sex is going to ruin their lives forever, because it's demonstrably not true.
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|I had thought that the point of the anecdotes was that
a)binge drinking among teens is not new, and
b)when we were kids the drinking age was twenty, yet I celebrated my 16th birthday in the Old Bank.Thats true, and the point of the spanking anecdotes is that...
A:smacking children into compliance is nothing new.
B: Canes and leather straps where used at schools, Yet I didn't learn as a result of it.How about I behaved like a f#cking idiot sometimes as a teen age binge drinker. And that it is not a rite of passage.
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I didn't mean that to look so corse. Maybe I not use the f#cking exclamation any more.
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When I was a teen binge drinking was the norm, and so too was driving home afterwards.
However I note most teens these days frown on their peers that drink drive. Now if we can have this sort of attitude change in two decades then maybe there is some hope for instilling a responsible attitude towards drinking.
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I have been asked how I'm going to bring down the moral authoritay on my kids considering my own teenage years. And okay, I don't have a plan, but I'm not going to tell them that having teenage sex is going to ruin their lives forever, because it's demonstrably not true.
R R R R R!
I plan to tell my daughter (many many many many moons from now) that sex is OK as long as she's f#cking the guy -- and not the other way round (ie. she gets f#cked by him).
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