Drinking Habits During Teenage

Being a teenager, one is at the most crucial stage in life. It is where you are introduced to an outside world and learn many new things. As the brain is fresh and alert at this time, he or she can involve in bad activities like drugs alcohol intake and many others. The American alcohol expert said that teens consume more alcohol during vacation before the new academic session begins.

The University of Rhode Island Psychology Professor Mark Wood advises parents to take care of their children by knowing where they are, whom they are with and what they are doing.

He said, "This type of monitoring, particularly in combination with an emotionally supportive parenting style, is associated with less drinking and fewer alcohol-related problems across numerous studies.

"It is also important for parents to express clear disapproval of alcohol use and to provide clear and fair consequences associated with breaking the rules. Research shows this combination of factors decreases alcohol use and problems through adolescence and into college."

"We live in a era when students are texting and talking to parents, sometimes many times a day. Although the term helicopter parent does have a negative connotation, I think conversations about drinking are good whenever and wherever they occur. Most American teenagers begin to drink by age 15. By the time they go off to college, most have considerable drinking experience. Ideally, parents should be having conversations about alcohol throughout high school. But it's never too late to begin an ongoing dialogue about drinking with teens." added Wood.

Adolescents increase their alcohol consumption in summer seasons before entering college and during their first semester at college. In fact this is also true for children who are well taken care and emotionally supported by their parents.. However, these children take less quantity of drinks than teens who didn't have that kind of parental involvement in high school.

"The protective effects that parents exert in high school continue to be influential into college even at a time when the kids have left the home. It's the internalisation of those values, attitudes, expectations that seem to continue to exert an effect." said Wood.