How to Keep Your Child from Drinking Alcohol on Spring Break

As a parent, you've learned to become apprehensive around spring break each year. As your kids get older, they somehow come up with better excuses for you to allow them to go on a spring break trip...alone. Yes, you trust them. Yes, you know that eventually you'll have to let them go out on their own and hope that you raised them right. But there's still that strange period in their mid to late teens where they are still kids but almost adults, meaning that they can make very serious decisions without you but you are still responsible for their well being. If you have decided to allow your teen to go on a spring break trip this year, you're likely at least a little concerned about how he/she will counter the desire to lie beneath a keg every night. You're worried that, even though he/she's a good kid, they might succumb to the intense peer pressure. Even so, it's not that first beer that worries you. What really worries you is that second, third, fourth, or fifth drink and what kind of behavior might ensue afterward. Take heart. No, you can't be there every second with your child on spring break to make sure that he/she is not drinking, but there are things that you can do as a parent to have some control over the situation.

How to Keep Your Child from Drinking Alcohol on Spring Break

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