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]]> Is it wrong to be training your toddler to fetch beer from the fridge? (If you answer yes you are at the wrong blog) | Amber Liquid http://www.amberliquid.com/sober-ramblings/is-it-wrong-to-be-training-your-toddler-to-fetch-beer-from-the-fridge-if-you-answer-yes-you-are-at-the-wrong-blog/#comment-8 kindred spirit Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:58:14 +0000 http://www.amberliquid.com/sober-ramblings/is-it-wrong-to-be-training-your-toddler-to-fetch-beer-from-the-fridge-if-you-answer-yes-you-are-at-the-wrong-blog/#comment-8 Whilst recent studies have found that early exposure to alcohol is believed to enhance the risk of alcohol use and/or abuse later in life, alcohol is never the less still given medicinally to infants in some cultures through the infant's bottle, and it is also common in some parts of Latin America to place a ball soaked with alcohol on the stomach of a fussy infant which brings relief in the presence of alcohol's odour. Infants are also exposed to alcohol's odour when parents drink, (a little or a LOT) and according to this particular study, this makes the alcohol's odour more or less attractive to these children depending on the circumstances of the drinking. My point is.....whether early exposure to alcohol occurs through minute amounts being ingested orally, absorbed topically, breathed directly into the lungs or simply by constant visual association through very regular attendance at the said bottle shop, what matters most is that this little bundle of joy always associates alcohol (read beer) with happiness, laughter, relaxation, good times and a loving environment. Given these ingredients...surely the drink of choice (and the frequency with which it is consumed) matters not! Whilst recent studies have found that early exposure to alcohol is believed to enhance the risk of alcohol use and/or abuse later in life, alcohol is never the less still given medicinally to infants in some cultures through the infant’s bottle, and it is also common in some parts of Latin America to place a ball soaked with alcohol on the stomach of a fussy infant which brings relief in the presence of alcohol’s odour. Infants are also exposed to alcohol’s odour when parents drink, (a little or a LOT) and according to this particular study, this makes the alcohol’s odour more or less attractive to these children depending on the circumstances of the drinking.

My point is…..whether early exposure to alcohol occurs through minute amounts being ingested orally, absorbed topically, breathed directly into the lungs or simply by constant visual association through very regular attendance at the said bottle shop, what matters most is that this little bundle of joy always associates alcohol (read beer) with happiness, laughter, relaxation, good times and a loving environment. Given these ingredients…surely the drink of choice (and the frequency with which it is consumed) matters not!

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