That's alcohol abuse.
Always use proper glassware.
That's alcohol abuse.
Always use proper glassware.
My dad used to let me sip the foam off of a mug of beer.
I was 6.
I think it’d take more than a few sips from an apple-juice/splash-of-beer to have any real effect on the child. Even with the smaller body-mass, that is a fair amount of dilution.
Take it from me - This is worth a click.
There’s a slideshow of mugshots at the link. It’s the most incredible collection of carney rejects you’d ever want to see. At one point I was asking myself if it was a put-on.
Then I just decided that social corruption and depravity was far more than I had supposed.
http://www.kpho.com/slideshow?widgetid=32420
Red sippy cup ... I drink you up ... Let’s have a party! - Toby For Tots
Beer in a sippy cup! Child’s play.
I (twice) put beer in my three-month-old baby brother’s bottle.
I cringe now when I think about it. But I was 11 and at the end of my sanity because he wouldn’t stop crying. Yes, it worked, he shut up.
I do know that both times I knew it was wrong.
No, he doesn’t drink at all. Never did. Thank you Lord.
Did You Know the Solo Cup is also a Measuring Cup (for Booze)?
Can’t say this didn’t cross my mind more than once on a long baby crying night while the wife was off at work. lol
Child abuse?
Stupid as all heck but arrested for child abuse? That is as in potentially “lose your kids and go to jail” kind of child abuse?
And took the kid to the hospital as a precaution? Over 4 OUNCES of BEER?
Have we gone insane?
How much did the taxpayers invest in this circus before it was over? I’m sure it made great media, and a family is now destroyed over it.
“....the child may have drank the beer.”
Bad grammar. It should say “the child may have drunk the beer.” And this story was written by TWO journalists with bad grammar. You would think that one of them would have known the correct use.
Fortunately, I grew up in a saner time, otherwise my parents would have been thrown in jail, and I would have gone to a foster home.
As an aside, I recall a friend giving a bottle cap with a tiny bit of beer in it to a very small kitten. The kitten tasted it and jumped straight up in the air about a foot.
Why can’t people mind their own business.
When i was a baby, born early and underweight, the pediatrician told my mother to give me beer. But that was during the late Boomer Years before people became PC!
Alcoholic beverages played an important role in Colonial America from the very beginning. The Puritans brought more beer than water on the Mayflower as they departed for the New World. While this may seem strange for Puritans viewed from the modern context, it should be understood that drinking wine and beer at that time was safer than water - which was usually taken from sources used to dispose of sewerage and garbage.
Their experience showed them that it was safer to drink alcohol than the typically polluted water in Europe. Alcohol was also an effective analgesic, provided energy necessary for hard work, and generally enhanced the quality of life.
For hundreds of years their English ancestors had consumed beer and ale. Both in England and in the New World, people of both sexes and all ages typically drank beer with their meals. (Emphasis added)
I’ve always thought overly strict alcohol laws lead to more substance abuse than might otherwise be the case.
I spent a year in France as an exchange student, and was impressed by their alcohol laws: Beer and wine legal at 16, hard liquor at 18. And the French teenagers who’d had experience with American teenagers all commented that they didn’t understand why American teenagers always wanted to drink and get drunk.
I should look up to see if anyone has done studies comparing drinking—alcoholism rates—in countries where alcohol is made into a forbidden fruit (like the US), versus where the attitude is more relaxed. Although it would be hard to control for all the cultural differences...
