I Made Sure My Kids Understood the Dangers of Alcohol

Most parents might think I'm a bit strange, but for each time I celebrated the 15th birthday of one of my children, I gave them two gifts: the first was their regular birthday gift, a game console or music player or whatever it was they were dying to have at the time; the second gift was enrollment in alcohol education classes online. The fact of the matter is that kids are doing things that they shouldn't be doing, and it seems that with each year that passes, they start doing these things at younger and younger ages. I lost a sister when I was younger to drunk driving, and I did not want to go through anything like that with my own children. Since my kids never wanted to actually attend a class, I did these lessons online, and they really appreciated it. While they always moaned and whined when it came time, I was proud to see that they really paid attention to what they were being taught.