Much as we’d like to believe that exposing children to sensible drinking at home is effective, it’s my understanding that all the studies show the opposite. I think the kind of drinking your peers are up to is really what matters in the end. When I was in college I spent a summer with teens from all over Europe at a Goethe Institute. I remember plenty of drinking songs that seemed to involved guzzling beer and tipping the mug over your head to show you’d drunk it all and other silliness. Oktoberfest is pretty famous for people puking on the sidelines. Rides plus beer? Who thought that one up!