alcohol and kids

alcohol and kids

Is this OK?
Ma buys a LOT of drink for a group of fourteen and fifteen year olds.  Nineteen of them in total. Then leaves them to it. (That is just one adult, sort of, near to hand.) This is on Saturday. Three of them don't get to school on Monday as they are still sick....  One kid hurt, albeit minor, after falling from a wood pile.Other parents were in on it, but not there,  and were happy for their kids to be there under those circumstances.


  Is that close to acceptable? what do you think?
dairyflat2011-06-21 17:09:37

Not cool.

Fail

In an era when most 14 and 15 year old kids are drinking alcohol, is it not more sensible to buy it for them and keep them in a safe location (wood pile aside) as opposed to sitting in a local park or wandering the streets late at night?  If anything serious had happened, parents were on hand to deal with it.

Fair point.

One kid fell off a wood pile - doesn't seem that out of hand to me.

Its more the fact that if it did get out of hand, 1 parent vs 19 kids isn't too ideal.

It is fine if the parent is armed.

Alcohol and guns. My favourite combo.

14-15 year old's drinking ummmmm illegal anyone, supplying alcohol to minors even if you are there is outright wrong!

Yeah sorry, I can't see this being right in any sense at all. Whilst desperately trying to resist becoming the moral crusader, NZ (although not NZ alone) has a problem with binge drinking. It is the source of a hang of a lot of crime, violence, road incidents etc etc.

It's wrong.

I never needed my Mumsie to score my booze or weed for me when I was 15, so why should kids today have it so easy?

Harden up, you bunch of f**king blouses, it's not that hard. Get your old looking mate to buy you a bottle of cooking sherry, tap your folks' bottle of beefeaters, break into a church and steal the alter wine, whatever. Just get it done yourselves, f**king Gen Z idiots.

I'm KP, and that's my take.

The simple fact is that plenty of 15 year olds go through the age getting pissed every weekend and come out perfectly fine.

Those that don't are idiots now, and probably will be no matter what laws you create around it.

I'm not one for regulation but RTDs are a major problem.

I don�t think this is acceptable at all. When it comes down to it kids (even as young as 14 apparently) are always going to drink. They see that is being a normality in society today which is quite sad but true. It�s the parents that need a slap in the face. Parents are supposed to be responsible and guide their children through their teenage years teaching them the rights and wrongs. If there is no one doing it for this group how will they learn consequences? When one of them gets alcohol poisoning and carks it? (Perhaps not so severe.) Kids do stupid stuff; it�s the parents that need to be the ones preventing it and helping them learn from it, not encouraging it. Yeah the majority of teenagers drink before they�re the legal age and yeah they usually make a complete dick of themselves (12 pubs of lochead anyone?) I definitely did not have any adults supplying me with alcohol when I was 14 or 15. That�s a massive parent fail imo.

Age-Related Effects of Alcohol on Memory and Memory-Related Brain Function in Adolescents and Adults
A short preview of study: http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?code=u74078r851895382&size=largest

Even if teenagers are consuming alcohol in a supervised situation it should never lead to levels of inebriation where they are unable to attend school.

IMHO the current law should be changed so that 18 year olds shouldn't be allowed to purchase alcohol from an off-site liquor store as there are lots of 18 year olds still in school and are able to provide alcohol to peers at their school who are not yet 18. Make it 19 or 20. 18 year olds can still go to a pub, and yes those younger than 18 will still find ways to get their hands on alcohol but it won't be as easy.

Society is f**ked.

Interesting responses.

If 14/15 year olds aren't drinking how are they supposed to get laid?

that too is illegal! even if they are both 14/15

As per the original post, any form of supervision is better than none.

probably are, and to add to that a buch of slappers to boot. If you give your kids a solid example of how to drink responsibly and don't go providing alcohol at 14 year old's parties then I think you're off to a good start.

From today's Dominion Post - http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5264052/Drunk-kids-flooding-our-hospitals

Hmm...

Kids are just stupid in general. If people would just stop being such selfish gits and having them all the time, the problem would be solved.

Today me and a mate were walking through the corridors at school and we walked past a chick giving two guys a hand job, just casually out in the open. They were all third form, so about 13-14. No alcohol involved but if kids are gonna do that sort of stuff at school out in the open then I wouldn't want to know what they're like in the weekend with a bit of alcohol in them.JanelleRT2011-07-12 16:03:25

You don't want any, they were all hideous.

and 13 years old...