How to tell if your child has started drinking but won't tell you
This has to be every parent’s fear – especially if parents do drink alcohol and have the worry that the kids might be copying what they have been observing over the years. Unfortunately, because allegiances shift from parents to peers as kids grow older, there’s every chance that they will experiment with alcohol at some stage and not tell you – in the same way that they will experiment with sex and not tell you. This is a difficult issue for every parent and one that is simply a part of growing up and pushing away from parental control for many young people.
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