lessgravity

Son: "Do you drink alcohol?"
Sitter: "No, I don't like it. I think it's bad. Also I'm not old enough yet."
Son: "I don't like it either. But my dad likes wine."
Sitter: "I don't like it because it's not good for you."
Son: "Why do people drink it?"
Sitter: "Some people like it."
Son: "But it's bad! Who invented it if it's bad for you?"
Sitter: "I don't know."
Son: "I think a bad guy invented it."

- My stomach was in knots.

ScottFromWI

We can learn more from our kids than we could ever imagine. That's one of the blessings of sobriety for me and becoming involved in their lives again.

Dee74

hey less - like I've said before I was the neighbourhood bum - I turned that rep around.

Get sober, stay sober and the likelihood is, in the years to come, your son will not even remember you being drunk

D

Tang

I was just recently talking about as kids we are happy just to ride a bike. Somewhere along the line we thought the simple things weren't fun enough and we had to alter our reality. Definitely I agree with your child and I'm taking their advice. My young son started making comments to me like "why do you drink wine and beer?" He intuitively knew it wasn't a good thing. Broke my heart to be leading such a bad example. I'm working on fixing this myself.

Isaiah

If alcohol is bad, and you beat alcohol, then doesn't that make you some kind of a superhero?

I'm with Dee on this one. You can turn it around for him.