To Drink or Not to Drink..... in front of the kids....

Ok so ... Here it is... I "Like" this page on Facebook called I <3 Being a Mom...about 8 other of my Facebook friends also "Like" this page.

So when the post today was "Nothing like a drink after a long work day" I was thinking to myself..."Like" then I looked down at the "likes" and then how many comments were made about that post... It was at 5000 likes maybe and 900 some odd comments. Most of these comments were Mothers saying how bad it is to drink in front of there kids..some comments were off topic and others were trying to find some commend ground.....

Of course I had to make a post.. basically saying Everything is bad for you if you over do it, and if you hide drinking or anything from your kids they know ....that you are hiding it and are going to wonder why its so special you have to keep it for yourself as a secret.

Now this post is up to almost 1050 comments and 7774 people like it.

I myself do drink in front of my kids, My kids all three of them have tasted wine, and beer.... Does this make me a bad Mother? I do not think so.... And here is my reason of why... I was raised around drinking,  I remember my first beer, I got to take a few sips out of my daddy's Budweiser bottle one forth of July and boy I thought it was special.... did I become some crazy beer loving little girl...No, I just wanted to know what it tasted like. Many years later my early teens; my parents made homemade wine.... I was allowed a taste, then as I got older I was allowed alittle more in my glass. So when all my friends wanted to go to parties and drink... I didn't want to. Nothing about drinking was special to me. My Mother and Father didn't Hide it from me.

Alcoholism does run in my family, does this mean I am or will be the same... I think not. Do I think my children will  become alcoholics because I let them have a sip...nope I don't think that either.

Here is what I think... My kids come home daily with new thoughts and Ideas from kids and teachers, mostly about what is good for you or bad for you. I tell them " Everything is bad for you If you Over do it." Also  I believe that if you shelter your children from the world, Your Children will go find the world in which you kept from them.

So, No I do not let my children run around drinking until they are sloppy drunk and the sun comes up, I let them have a taste. I will teach them about good beer, fine wines, coffee, foods from around the world, and treats. I also cook with wine and beer.  My newest thing is Beer Homemade Pizza dough...which is super yummy.

I will do my best to show my children what is right and what is wrong....and hope they can go with that while making their own choices of what they think is right and wrong.
Do I think I am the prefect mother? Heck no! Being a Moms is hard...

Until then Happy Drinking... and Let Them Eat Cake.