My daughter, LMC (Little Miss Coyote), is 9 now. I've always been straight up honest with her about her mom's alcoholism as well as my own.
Honesty IS the best policy with kids. They do know plenty. She's known all about alcoholism since she was 5, for sure, and probably before that when the elephant was just sitting there at the dinner table with us.
To my knowledge she's never told anyone, but I'm not ashamed to be in recovery and I know she's not ashamed of me either. I figure if some ignoramus doesn't want their kid to play with her because of me, that's probably a good thing in the big picture of life.
BTW, I don't broadcast it either, but if it came up, I wouldn't flinch.
Here's what she thinks about my recovery:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...idnt-know.html
Thanks and God bless us all,
Coyote