I know I am a bit late on this but I need to add this for anyone thinking of it.
Do not not not try the "Make them drink so much they are sick" approach. Everyones body metobilises alcohol at a different rate. A person can give themselves alcohol poisoning before they even realise they have gone too far. No one knows what is a safe amount for someone - I can barely handle alcohol at all. Last time it only took two glasses of cuvee (Champers) to set my body into purging mode to try and get rid of it. My fever spikes, I am nauseous to the point of vomiting and I need to use the toilet - all at the same time. Which is a problem because I can't hold myself upright at all. That was one disaster DH should never have had to experience. It was a shock to both of us because I never used to have such a problem. If you see that with yout own child it would kill you to know its your fault.
Then there is your OWN punishment for doing it. You'd obviously call an Ambo and get their stomach pumped, then the hospital would call DoCS and you would be so far up the creek for providing a minor with alcohol that you'd never have to worry about teaching them a lesson again. NOT what you want. When you want what is best for your child, you need to do it in a way that wont risk them being removed from your care and put with people who may not care whats best for them.
In your case, I think you handled it well. Researching the affects of Alcohol is a good thing for teens to do I reckon. Sure, its not immediate consequences and their bulletproof attitude will most likely overpower the common sense they gleaned from it, but as that frontal lobe develops, that logic and knowledge is already there for them to realise - hang on a tic, I cant survive without a liver!
Thanks Inertia. That is exactly one of the things that concerns me with teenage drinking. No-one knows their limits - it's dangerous.
Sadly I have realised we were just too trusting & have been taken advantage of...ah well we know better now and so does she.... the reins have been tightened a bit.
I do think (*hope) she learned a bit.
I tried searching online for teen education programs, all I could find though seemed to relate more to kids with a serious drug / alcohol problem rather than kids wanting to test their limits.
And I've got three other kids to go through this with...oh boy
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and so does she.... the reins have been tightened a bit.
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