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Hi this is Jane Garvey and this is the woman's our parenting

podcast. It's this week about drinking alcohol, alcohol consumption and

teenagers. What is the best message to give? How do you give it? Would you actually tell them and perhaps more importantly do they

I mean will they listen to a word you say I talked to Mandy Saligari author of a

book called Proactive Parenting and Dorothy Newbury Birch, professor of alcohol

and public health research at the School of Social Sciences Humanities and Law at Teesside University.

I started by asking Dorothy whether my own approach,

which was basically to drink a moderate amount in a responsible way in front of my

children, was the right thing to do. Well I think as parents we're all just trying to do the best we can. And I have to say that was the stance I had when my kids were younger. I think the reality, and now that I know the evidence much more is that this isn't a good idea

and really when you think about it why are we teaching our children how to use a drug? We wouldn't give them a cigarette after dinner at the

dinner table. And I think the problem with this and the reason it happens is because we're all just trying to do the best we can and there's mixed messages out there

and not very clear messages about what we should be doing. Well, give us a clear message.

Well, the clear messages, the guidelines that were published in 2009

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