If they're going to do it...I'd rather them do it here

i kind floating on this, i would allow them to try alittle, but not like here go ahead and drink whatever, never buy them anything. i never allow under age drinking at my house, even still now. we have kids over and they ask me all the time to get them something i tell them nope, a $1,000 per person and jail i don't like no one that damn much. i've been lucky my kids aren't into drinking, seen me go through drinking. i would report them,

Wow! That's horrible. I mean, I get the concept of accepting the fact that your kids are going to try it - it's normal to want to try drinking when you're a teen. However, instead and buying your kids the drinks, and letting them get away with it, that mom ought to talk to her kids about freakin' common sense. What an idiot.

It depends on the age of your kid. If they have the legal age to drink I would rather have them at home drinking than in a bar where you can't watch them, merely because the first time can have a rather big impact. With your children the chance of brain damage is just to big, stay away from it for as long as you can and preferbly just keep of it all the time. It's not worth it.

Yeah, that's smart. They are the people that end up in jail for allowing their kids to drink at home and allow friends to come over and drink etc. You should have told them allowing underage drinking period is against the law. Some people are so stupid!!

i will rather have my kids to drink at home too... so i can keeo an eye on them and also will know their limit.. and also if they will not want to try it away from your watchful eye and get drunk, and even get into trouble... i think kids should drink when they are ready.

I think overall the drinking at home is the best way to go. If you completely deny something to a child or young adult the more they will want it. If you allow them to drink in the safety of the home they learn it's not all that exciting and don't feel the need to sneak around doing it. Sneaking out and then driving back drunk is dangerous. A couple drink kids staying at someones house hurts no one, helps satisfy curiousity, and ends the need to sneak. I was always told that if I ever drink to just call and say where I was so they knew and to stay the night. I never felt like I had to sneak around and never drove drunk as long as I lived with my parents.

It's actually not uncommon. It happens where I live quite frequently, especially in the more 'country' areas. I think it's quite stupid in my opinion because the parents are just pushing the idea that it's ok to break the law and it's OK for their kids to drink. Of course, these parents want to be more than friends with their kids and don't want to be parents so they'd rather their kids like them than hate them. I don't agree with that parenting style at all.

My mom's view is exactly that way, it's easier to keep an eye on us than if we were someone else at least they could control all the crazy things that could happen during those drinking nights...