Teen drinking....the great monkey on the back of mothers! While fathers don't exactly condone it, they seem to take the boys will be boys attitude. Now let their daughters start drinking and that's a whole new ballgame. Do we condone it? No! Do we forbid it? We try! But at times that I know that drinking may be happening, I do take keys and I do insist that they sleep over.
By the time these kids are seniors and nearly or already 18, they seem to take on this frantic activity like....cram it all in before we graduate! Drinking seems to be epidemic in seniors. Fortunately, drugs don't seem to be as big an issue....I hope that's not naive!