Interesting article in Time (and it even has an Arkansas connection) about ways to prevent binge drinking in teens by letting parents drink with them ... kind of the way it's done in foreign countries.
Our friend Mark once told Jennifer and I about letting his two children drink as they were growing up. His son asked for a beer at 12 or 13 and he let him have one, thinking that if he drank it around his parents it wouldn't be a big deal once he got older. Sounds like Mark was right ...
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1816475,00.html
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And, in an odd twist, I think the other golfer, the one who helped the guy to the shower was Petey King, son of Harry King.
I'll have to ask Harry, but Petey and Daly were roommates all through college since both golf for the Razorbacks.
Reminds me of the mid 80s when I was a teen and my brother was in elementary school. The "Just Say No" program had kicked off and my brother became active, so my parents had to attend a meeting and sign some contract. My parents, being realists, raised a question if it wouldn't be better to contain teenage drinking in your house where it was supervised and controlled. They were nearly stoned by the mob of parents who couldn't disagree more (Oddly most of the other parents there were younger and on their first child ... don't know if this affected their stance). So the result concerning me was the typical "We know you'll probably drink, but it's not allowed, and you must never drink and drive". But I did drink and sometimes drove. I wonder if it would have been any different if those gatherings had been in my own basement?
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