But Jung, a reporter for The Oregonian, has noticed that her two-year-old has added the word beer to her vocabulary, and it has her wondering if shes setting a bad example. She addressed her conundrum in a Jan. 25 article:
Are we serving as a bad example by having a pint or two each night? Are there any downsides to just simply unwinding with a drink?
I talked about this with Bonnie Nagel, an assistant professor in OHSU's departments of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience. ...
"If parents are going to drink alcohol in front of their kids, it's really important to educate their kids about how drinking during adolescence is much more damaging to their brains than to adults' (brains), " said Nagel. "Having drinks during that time can alter the course of development." ...
Explain to your child that there are serious negative outcomes -- developmentally and socially -- from drinking at a young age. Not only could your child be hurting their longterm decision-making and memory, but he or she could find themselves in a dangerous situation.
Labels: parental influence, alcohol
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