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I don't know if that really match but I have an anecdote about (absence of) punishment as a teenager. As a teenager, on one of my first parties involving alcoh
by pjerem 5y ago
I don't know if that really match but I have an anecdote about (absence of) punishment as a teenager.
As a teenager, on one of my first parties involving alcohol, my father said something like this :
"Try not to drink a lot, but if you do and feel like you want to come back home, call us and we'll get you home, we will not reprimand you whatever would happen. Don't ride one of your friends car, just call us."
Well, contrary to all my friends who acted like their parents should not know they would drink alcohol, I had a great party with moderately high alcohol consumption. "Fun fact" is that I had to call the emergency services for someone who has had an ethyl coma.
Interestingly, and I think it's correlated, I continued to drink alcohol at parties but my first real hangover was more than 5 or 6 years after, on a place and with people I felt safe with.
_All_ of my friends who were taught that they'll be reprimanded if they drank a lot started to drink a lot secretly at every parties. Most of them aren't even my friends anymore.