what about the keys to the car too Got those on my 16th.
I agree with the lowering the age. I was granfathered in at 19 in FL when it went up.
1. The kids have access to pot and all kinds of designer drugs they can get easier than booze.
2. I will not send my 18 yr. old away to college with complete lack of knowledge about booze. If you do that, you haven't done your job as a parent.
I hate those letters to Dear Abby from parents who sent their daughter to college with no experience on booze, sex, or drugs, and she passes out and gets gang banged the first week.
In Europe, kids get a glass of wine with dinner as teenagers, and drinking is not such a big deal.
I'm going to start giving my kids a glass of wine or a beer with a taco, as teens. Then senior year in high school, I will let them drink a few beers under my supervision.
Stop the madness!
what about the keys to the car too Got those on my 16th.
I say let them drink but, have a ZERO tolerance for DWI. First time you get caught go straight to jail and loose your license. Second offense should be a felony. After I get out of the academy I guess I'll have to deal with it. But thats what I would do. The bottom line is, if you can't do it responsibly, then don't do it at all. I know I would have killed for the drinking age to be 18 when I was that age!
Drinking age is 18 in Alberta, Canada.
It seems to work fine. Kids who want booze will find it no matter what, and I think that waiting until 21 just makes drinking into forbidden fruit, all that more desired and attractive.
People growing up in countries where kids drink wine all their life don't have kids that turn 18 and turn into alcoholics until the fun wears off.
Just like during national Prohibition, the law has pushed and forced underage drinking and youthful drinking underground, where we have no control over it.
Keep it to beer and wine and have a zero tolerance policy in affect.:idea:
This will no doubt get me bashed by most, but what GOOD will be done by changing the legal age?
Kids are gonna do it anyway, but why should the gov't embrace it?