<p>This approach happens to dovetail with our family's view, call it the French Method - occasional sips of wine at the family dinner table for adolescents to create "wine as a spirit enhancing part of the meal" ethos vs. alcohol as a stupefier ethos.</p>
<p>Any reactions?</p>
<p>It sounds very sensible and if it can continue to be carried out without abuse then it probably is a constructive policy that will be good for Colby. </p>
<p>It reminds me that in the days when Wisconsin allowed beer drinking at 18, the Student Union at UW-Madison served 3.2 beer and it was just sort of taken for granted as a social beverage. (More substantial drinking revolved around parties and bars.)</p>
<p>I think it is a very creative idea, it seems to be intuitively correct to me. We have always allowed our children to taste wine at the dinner table, thogh they rarely asked or desired to. It will be interesting to see how well it works a year or so from now.</p>
<p>Seems like a good idea.</p>
<p>Wisconsin stills serves beer and wine in the unions. They also used to sell it in the student housing cafeterias and you could use your meal tickets to buy it. No longer.</p>
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You probably mean how the Colby experiment works, but I also wonder how your and our family's "dinner table" approach works. Based on results so far here, I am pleased as S has no interest in joining the few in our community who are into drinking parties on the weekend. I don't think our dinner table approach gets major credit, I think a lot more goes in to it. But I do think it takes alcohol away from the binge or nothing approach.</p>