So the kids are beginning another week at school - Red Ribbon Week.
Although they've been through this a few times now, it's just starting to sink in for my 2nd grader. He comes home from school, holds Daddy's hands and says he loves him very much and he doesn't want him to die so please stop drinking beer.
Now - I'm all for teaching children that drugs are bad.
I draw the line at teaching children that beer, a legal drink that even my husband's doctor seemed to think was just fine at 2 pints a day, was hunky dory.
That just pisses me off.
Teach them that it is wrong and not okay to drink alcohol ---until they are 21. But don't teach them that it's going to kill their parents if they keep drinking it. They find out that's wrong and them perhaps assume that everything else they learned is wrong too... or if not entirely wrong, at least worth testing?
Then you throw in
studies on it's effectiveness and I really question why they don't look into a different program... or is that the only one around?