<p>Reality bites. Young Adults some time drink in college (most). We as parents do have to help our children with the realities of college, drinking and life. Not by pouring alcohol down them at 16 yo and is anybody really saying that here are they? </p>
<p>At a nearby college last year, a young man drank himself to death in a frat house. At first, the newspaper reported the parents blamed the Frat house and the young men who lived there. Then the truth started to leak out. The young man had only lived in the Frat for 1 week. He had not been drinking with the “brothers” but out on his own. He had been kick out of his freshman dorm after only a month or two because of his drinking. He had brushes with the law when he was younger with his drinking in high school. His father tried to blame the Frat house first and then the University. But the father’s story had no traction because the boy’s drinking had been so well documented early on with warnings and removal. I believe this parent knew his son had a drinking problem and sent him to college and then wanted to blame anyone else for the tragic outcome. But we don’t do our children any favors if we blame others for their behavior.</p>