My parents personally let me start drinking at the age 16, trying a variety of alcohol substances. Beer was the choice for me because I thought that all wines and hard liquors were awful tasting, including the worst aftertaste. Beer is my favorite to drink because it has that smooth taste to it. Beer I could handle pretty well, by my sixth beer in about an hour and a half period I was perfectly fine. But then about two years later when I was 18, I was at my friend's house and they wanted me to have a shot of Yukon Jac

k. I was pretty skeptical about this, because it's alcohol content was 100 proof. My parents told me for every proof is equal to half a percent of alcohol (meaning 1 proof = 1/2 percent of alcohol in that particular bottle). Yukon Jack contained 50% alcohol, so then I only had half a shot, and had nothing else because I didn't know how my body would react. If I had anything else to drink that night I would have been extremely intoxicated. If my parents weren't involved in my life showing me the rights and wrongs of alcohol, I would probably be out there getting drunk with my friends, because I didn't know how to drink respectively.

Christine's and my life has less of a burden on are shoulders since were now in college. Knowing that every party we go to Binge drinking will be there but wont affect on how we consume our alcohol, due to our knowledge passed from our parents to us. Knowing I don't feel like waking up with that hangover the very next day because I drank more than what I can handle. If every parent like mine and Christine's taught their kids these same facts that our parents told us there would be less College students getting ill over alcohol. In these days of age, parents just don't have the ti

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