Wow! It’s amazing to me how such young kids are aware of so much and how deeply they are impacted at a young age. My mother did not develop alcoholism until I was in my teen years. She already had mental problems though so we were dealing with that. The gravity of the situation never really hit me until much later. In fact, not really until after she died, and worse after I had my own son and started processing my own family stuff more deeply. Negative early childhood experiences can really creep up later in life and hit you hard. I am trying to be mindful of this with my own son, and it is one more thing keeping me sober.