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Old 07-25-2008, 09:04 PM
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lizw
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I am pretty sure that all of the Al Anon meetings I have ever attended read out this thing that says, children are welcome but it is the responsibility of the adult who brings them to provide activites to keep the children quitely occupied.

Far out, I think I just typed that word for word!! Ha,ha.

I can understand the concern about having kids hear stuff they shouldn't hear but I think part of the disease is about 'hiding' what is going on from other family members. I think Al Anon has a book for kids called "what's drunk mama?"

Something I hold in my mind is that at some Al Anon meetings kids would probably get treated with a lot more kindness by other members than what they may get at home because of all the chaos alcoholism causes.

I know one lady who use to attend what was my home group, and bring her 6 kids and one of them was (and still is) a very talented actor/singer/dancer, so everyone in our Al Anon use to go see all the shows she was in and give the little girl gifts to congratulate her. I think kids remember that stuff.
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