<p>When I was in school --the drinking age was 18</p>
<p>and binge drinking wasn’t a name–
drinking for us was a sport-- so 4-6-8 solo cups of beer, long necks --whatever…
you could drink for 10 cent drafts, 25 cent long necks…</p>
<p>and nothing changed from year to year to year…frosh to sr…</p>
<p>When we lived in Europe–I noted it is FAR less fashionable to drink to excess–and our oldest boys was given spumante at a birthday party for a 10 yr old…
There isnt a drinkin age per se–but its considered bar form in Italy where we lived…</p>
<p>Our S is committed to good health, educationm athletics, abstinence…and we support that.
He and Tim Tebow may be the only college boys who are not drinkers and are virgins but thats fine…</p>
<p>Better to be true to himself than choose to participate in something he doesnt believe in…</p>
<p>He has a great future ahead of him and that he is even thinking about navigating the college binge drinking of friends and how to handle their choices vs his own is admirable.</p>
<p>Frankly while some say that our kids learn so much out of the classroom etc(true–both good and bad) and how the whole college experience is a growing thing (also true–I feel alot younger than I am)
–I think they forget that MUCH of that “growing” mis-behavior is not something one writes on a resume or puts in an headline “above the fold”…</p>
<p>Wish I had made some of the better choices myself ;o) but substance free dorms didn’t exist then …
The first day I got to my campus–later in the afternoon after mny parents had left…a sophmore came over–and said “let’s go to happy hour”…
“What’s a happy hour?” I ask…</p>