How to send the right message about alcohol to your kids
Kids are always watching, learning from and imitating their parents. Their ideas and behaviours are constantly being shaped by us. So when I sit down to dinner with a glass of wine almost every night?hypothetically speaking, of course?what message does it send" As the person responsible for developing their healthy drinking attitudes, am I OK with the example I?m setting" ?The strongest influence on children?s drinking is parents? modelling,? says Catherine Paradis, senior research and policy analyst at the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction in Ottawa. ?It?s 5 p.m., you?re stressed and impatient and you just need a drink, and your kids see that. We are telling our kids how necessary it is, and we need to think about that.?Â
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4 facts you need to know about drinking and breastfeeding
But it?s not only what they see?I also have to look at what I say (or don?t say) about my drinking. They?re not too young to discuss it. ?Surveys indicate that children start to think positively about alcohol between ages nine and 13,? reads a 2015 report from the American Academy of Pediatrics on teen binge drinking. “The more young people are exposed to alcohol advertising and marketing, the more likely they are to drink, and if they are...
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