{"id":1078,"date":"2012-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/wadds\/dad-forces-sons-to-drink-alcohol\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:20:10","slug":"dad-forces-sons-to-drink-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/wadds\/dad-forces-sons-to-drink-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad forces sons to drink alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Arizona dad is feeling the heat after he forced his teen sons to drink liquor after he busted them sneaking into his stash. Is this sort of punishment cruel, or is this what kids need today to stay on the straight and narrow?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PUNISHMENT OLD-FASHIONED OR JUST RIGHT?<\/h2>\n

Kristopher Harvey was unhappily surprised when he discovered his teen sons, aged 13 and 14, were sneaking alcohol while he was away from home. He\u00a0forced them to consume three shots of hard liquor\u00a0and has now been charged with two counts of child abuse after neighbors heard the kids shouting from the pool that evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cUnfortunately it was some of the things I learned when I was a child, that this is how you teach your children to do things,\u201d said a remorseful Harvey. \u201cI realize now that it was the biggest mistake of my life.\u201d He faces 17 years to life and may lose the ability to see his kids again.<\/p>\n

Doing it old-school<\/h3>\n

Punishment\u00a0like this certainly isn\u2019t new and vogue\u00a0\u2014 in fact, it has the vintage feel of old-school parenting. If a kid drinks or smokes, force him to do it until he gets sick\u00a0\u2014 this way perhaps he\u2019ll realize how wrong the activity was. Laura from Australia said this method worked wonders. \u201cForty years ago my daughter was 4 and I caught her and a little friend smoking behind the shed so I sat her down and made her smoke a whole cigarette,\u201d she shared. \u201cShe has never smoked again, so it worked with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Jennifer from Arizona said, \u201cI wish that \u2018Here, drink more booze!\u2019 was the response when I got caught drinking while in high school. Instead I think I was yelled at and then grounded for what seemed like years!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gains the wrong result<\/h3>\n

Melissa, mom of three, has memories of friends going through a similar punishment. \u201cI remember someone\u2019s dad making them smoke an entire packet of cigarettes after catching them stealing one,\u201d she explained. \u201cWhat I cannot remember is if that actually stopped them from going on to smoke. It probably didn\u2019t though, and just set up an even more combative relationship between parent and child.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Allow your kids to drink<\/h3>\n

And still another option\u00a0\u2014 albeit highly illegal if your kids are underage and will land you in jail\u00a0\u2014 is to\u00a0let your kids drink at home. \u201cMy parents let me drink to avoid any sneaking around,\u201d said Lindsay, mom of one. \u201cWe were open about it, and as a result liquor lost its appeal. I will most likely do the same with my son. I would rather he drink at home and be safe, than to sneak around and hurt himself or someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Only time, and the courts, will tell whether this parenting misstep will go punished or not. But with the danger of alcohol poisoning\u00a0\u2014 or simply making your kids hate you more\u00a0\u2014 this may not have been the wisest form of discipline.<\/p>\n

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Many Thanks
\nNicky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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