Keeping them safe...
Is it just me or does everyone think underage drinking is a problem for every parent with teenagers?
Underage drinkers on North Stradbroke Island are getting lots of press today, with news that one car load of kids was on the island with $2000 worth of booze, bought for them by their parents.
Police say they have confiscated a lot of alcohol in the past couple of days, from numerous groups of teenagers. All of it has apparently been tipped down the drain……some people are angry about that, some say good on them.
As the mother of a 16 year old though, I think the bigger issue is the age of the kids. I don’t know that there is a parent out there not worried about underage drinking.
Peter Norris is a coast parent, today he emailed me from Atlanta Georgia where he’s visiting for work. Peter has six kids - two in their twenties - the other four are under 18…
He writes: “If someone can come up with a cure for underage drinking, I'm prepared to market it World Wide. My son is turning 17 in a few months time, and I want to know, what does one do? If you allow your kids to go out (and you can't keep them locked up for ever), you know that they will be drinking. What they are drinking is what worries us. If you buy it for them you are actually breaking the law but I would rather supply my son with a limited amount and know what he has rather than just let him run wild. To his credit at this point in time he hasn't abused that privilege, that I know of, but I don't kid myself that it can and will happen.
In relation to the mob at Stradbroke, to my mind it’s a rod state government, and various commercial interests have made for their own
back. For years now the Stradbroke trip has been promoted as a pre-schoolies event, and now it’s starting to get out of hand the powers that be have decided to crack down. Bottom line is that it should have been nipped in the bud years ago.
Good on the cops anyway. Back in the day, if we as youngsters
got caught with booze, you got the booze tipped out and a boot up the
bum to go with it.”
Thanks for your email Peter….but the only answer I see is locking your kids up until they are over 18 – any chance you could market that world wide?????
Underage drinkers on North Stradbroke Island are getting lots of press today, with news that one car load of kids was on the island with $2000 worth of booze, bought for them by their parents.
Police say they have confiscated a lot of alcohol in the past couple of days, from numerous groups of teenagers. All of it has apparently been tipped down the drain……some people are angry about that, some say good on them.
As the mother of a 16 year old though, I think the bigger issue is the age of the kids. I don’t know that there is a parent out there not worried about underage drinking.
Peter Norris is a coast parent, today he emailed me from Atlanta Georgia where he’s visiting for work. Peter has six kids - two in their twenties - the other four are under 18…
He writes: “If someone can come up with a cure for underage drinking, I'm prepared to market it World Wide. My son is turning 17 in a few months time, and I want to know, what does one do? If you allow your kids to go out (and you can't keep them locked up for ever), you know that they will be drinking. What they are drinking is what worries us. If you buy it for them you are actually breaking the law but I would rather supply my son with a limited amount and know what he has rather than just let him run wild. To his credit at this point in time he hasn't abused that privilege, that I know of, but I don't kid myself that it can and will happen.
In relation to the mob at Stradbroke, to my mind it’s a rod state government, and various commercial interests have made for their own
back. For years now the Stradbroke trip has been promoted as a pre-schoolies event, and now it’s starting to get out of hand the powers that be have decided to crack down. Bottom line is that it should have been nipped in the bud years ago.
Good on the cops anyway. Back in the day, if we as youngsters
got caught with booze, you got the booze tipped out and a boot up the
bum to go with it.”
Thanks for your email Peter….but the only answer I see is locking your kids up until they are over 18 – any chance you could market that world wide?????
1 Comments:
I too am a parent of a 17yr old. how much do i relate to Peter's comments about his son. you do what you can - but supplying your 17yr old with 19 ctns of beer - what planet are they living on!!
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